Lafo
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ləfoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lafo is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- NZNew Zealand
- AUAustralia
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Lafo is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In tvl, throw or toss underarm (as of a quoit); game in which a segment of coconut shell is tossed onto a mat; a shell segment so used
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Tongan, throw (rope, fishing line, net, etc.), or disks; disk-throwing game
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Samoan, cloth used as gratuity for a talking chief
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Samoan, throw (with forearm), cast
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Esperanto, lava
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)
Attested in 6 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 108 | #151,532 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 101 | #155,270 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- How do you pronounce Lafo?
- A machine transcription gives /ləfoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lafo have the most bearers?
- Lafo is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Lafo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lafoThe 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, “Lafo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.