Lusé
surname · Latin script
Lusé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Probably an altered or variant spelling of Luce.
- LVLatvia≈1 in 3.9Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 236K
- CACanada≈1 in 250Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lusé itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 231 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.9K (inferred from the name graph)
1,409 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Latvia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Luse in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 3 more and Lūse in LV Latvia.
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)Probably an altered or variant spelling of Luce.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lusé 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,409 | 1 in 236K | 1.4K | Luse | 231 |
| LV Latvia | #317 | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 1 | Lūse | 23 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Luse | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 367K | — | Luse | 23 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 374K | — | Luse | 8 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 251K | 1 | Luse | 9 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 169K | — | Luse | 4 |
1,409 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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 Lusé mean, and where does it come from?
- Probably an altered or variant spelling of Luce. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Lusé have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Lusé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled luse.
- How common is the name Lusé?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,409 people named Lusé in 2010, about 1 in 236 thousand residents.
- How common is Lusé compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Lusé is the 317th most common surname of 60,294 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lus%C3%A9The 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, “Lusé” — the 317th most common surname in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.