Lugó
surname · Latin script
Lugó is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. In Venezuela it is the 57th most common surname. Recorded meaning: This was a Roman settlement under the name of Lucus Augusti ‘grove, wood of Augustus’, but that may have been no more than an adaptation of an earlier name derived Lumsden Scots: habitation name from.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 340(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 490
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 910
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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 383 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 341 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lugo in MX Mexico, VE Venezuela, US United States 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
(measured from records)This was a Roman settlement under the name of Lucus Augusti ‘grove, wood of Augustus’, but that may have been no more than an adaptation of an earlier name derived Lumsden Scots: habitation name from a place in the par¬ ish of Coldingham, Berwicks. The first element of the placename is of uncertain origin, apparently the gen. case of a personal name; the second is probably OE denu valley (see Dean i). from that of the Celt, god Lugos. Var.: Lumsdaine. Liihrig see Leuther Luitpold see Leopold
Cited for this meaning 5
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Lugó is found
(measured from records)Lugó 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #169 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 2K | Lugo | 211 |
| VE Venezuela | #57 | ≈83,000 est. | ≈1 in 341 | 607 | Lugo | 101 |
| US United States | — | 37,903 | 1 in 8.8K | 39K | Lugo | 383 |
| CO Colombia | #372 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 9 | Lugo | 115 |
| AR Argentina | #335 | 21,409 | 1 in 2.1K | 21K | Lugo | 80 |
| PY Paraguay | #107 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 486 | — | Lugo | 53 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #110 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 910 | — | Lugo | 57 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 1,917 | 1 in 1.8K | 1.9K | — | 24 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lugó mean, and where does it come from?
- This was a Roman settlement under the name of Lucus Augusti ‘grove, wood of Augustus’, but that may have been no more than an adaptation of an earlier name derived Lumsden Scots: habitation name from… Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 3 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Lugó?
- Mondonomo estimates about 106 thousand people named Lugó in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lugo. After it come Venezuela, United States, Colombia and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Lugó?
- In the United States, the national register counted 37,903 people named Lugó in 2010, about 1 in 8.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Lugó compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Lugó is the 169th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lug%C3%B3The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Lugó” — ranked 188th in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.