Ļa
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ļa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country, where it is the 15th most common surname. Recorded meaning: (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 385(inferred from the name graph)
- TNTunisia≈1 in 2.9K
- MAMorocco≈1 in 3.7K
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 Ļa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 497 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 385 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Algeria, 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 La in TN Tunisia, BR Brazil, MA Morocco and 4 more and Lä in EC Ecuador.
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 etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Sources 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
- Chinese Surnames Dictionary (Section 1)
Attested across 32 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ļa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | #15 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 385 | — | La | 19 |
| CN China | — | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | La | 47 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | La | 148 |
| BR Brazil | — | 11,408 | 1 in 19K | 11K | La | 109 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | La | 30 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 4,741as Laz | 1 in 3.6K | 4.7K | Lä | 76 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 29 | La | 94 |
| TN Tunisia | #858 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | La | 16 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INEC — civil registry names; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ļa is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cau-and-pro, 1 up, above 2 locative suffix (of series Super)
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In cau-nec-pro, up, above (an adverbial stem)
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ļa mean, and where does it come from?
- (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 5 other sources.
- In which country does Ļa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 111 thousand people named Ļa in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled la.
- How common is the name Ļa?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 11,408 people named Ļa, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
- How common is Ļa compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Ļa is the 15th most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ļa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C4%BCaThe 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, “Ļa” — the 15th most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.