L-O
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L-O is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hong Kong than in any other country, where it is the 64th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Betawi Kota lo (“you”), from Hokkien 汝 (lú). Doublet of lu.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 150(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 2K
- CACanada≈1 in 6.2K
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 L-O 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.
- Hong Kong (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 460 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 150 (inferred from the name graph)
≈50,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Lo in US United States, CA Canada, MY Malaysia and 1 more, Loe in NO Norway and Lô in SN Senegal.
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)- Betawi Kotalo“you”(measured from records)
- Hokkien汝lú(measured from records)
From Betawi Kota lo (“you”), from Hokkien 汝 (lú). Doublet of lu.
Cited for this meaning 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where the surname L-O is found
(measured from records)L-O 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HK Hong Kong | #64 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 150 | — | Lo | 127 |
| MY Malaysia | #367 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Lo | 98 |
| US United States | — | 17,687 | 1 in 19K | 19K | Lo | 460 |
| SN Senegal | — | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 46 | Lô | 36 |
| CA Canada | #556 | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | 1 | Lo | 240 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,186as Loe | 1 in 4.6K | 1.2K | Loe | 25 |
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 2020; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024). 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 L-O mean, and where does it come from?
- From Betawi Kota lo (“you”), from Hokkien 汝 (lú). Doublet of lu. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 4 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname L-O?
- Mondonomo estimates about 50 thousand people named L-O in Hong Kong, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lo. After it come Malaysia, United States, Senegal and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name L-O?
- In the United States, the national register counted 17,687 people named L-O in 2010, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
- How common is L-O compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, L-O is the 64th most common surname of 8,142 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l-oThe 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, “L-O” — the 64th most common surname in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.