Lacer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: occupational name for a maker of cord and string, derived from Middle English lace ‘cord’ (Old French laz, las)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/leɪsəɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lacer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 857K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 2M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 47 (measured from records)
- 1 in 857K (inferred from the name graph)
388 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)occupational name for a maker of cord and string, derived from Middle English lace ‘cord’ (Old French laz, las).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lacer 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 | 388 | 1 in 857K | 430 | Lacer | 47 |
| BR Brazil | 105 | 1 in 2M | 105 | Lacer | 18 |
| PT Portugal | — | — | — | Lacer | 2 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | — | 1 | — | — |
388 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 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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)Lacer 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 English, A person or thing that laces.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, lacerated, mangled, torn to pieces
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 430 | #52,161 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 394 | #49,965 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 388 | #53,316 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 105 | #61,079 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lacer mean, and where does it come from?
- occupational name for a maker of cord and string, derived from Middle English lace ‘cord’ (Old French laz, las). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lacer?
- A machine transcription gives /leɪsəɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lacer have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 388 people named Lacer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lacer.
- Where is Lacer most common?
- Lacer is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 857 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lacer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 388 people named Lacer in 2010, about 1 in 857 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lacerThe 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, “Lacer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.