Lāz

surname · Latin script

Lāz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country.

  • ECEcuador1 in 3.6K(measured from records)
  • GTGuatemala≈1 in 36Kfew records
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 110K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Ecuador (measured from records)

4,741 people, 2024

Record sources
142 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Laz in EC Ecuador, TR Türkiye, PH Philippines and 4 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Lāz counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Lāz is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EC Ecuador4,7411 in 3.6K4.7KLaz23
DZ Algeria≈1,600 est.≈1 in 30K—Laz4
NG Nigeria≈940 est.≈1 in 248K—Laz21
TR Türkiye≈760 est.≈1 in 113K—Laz25
PH Philippines≈600 est.≈1 in 192K—Laz21
GT Guatemala≈510 est.≈1 in 36K—Laz9
AT Austria≈66 est.≈1 in 139K—Laz5

4,741 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: INEC — civil registry names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Lāz under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Lāz have the most bearers?
In Ecuador, the national register counted about 4.7 thousand people named Lāz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled laz.
Where is Lāz most common?
Lāz is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.6 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Lāz?
In Ecuador, the national register counted 4,741 people named Lāz in 2024, about 1 in 3.6 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lāz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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