Lafong
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
/ləfɔŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lafong is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 21Kas Lafon(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 165Kas Lafon
- USUnited States1 in 209Kas Lafon
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lafong 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
1,588 named Lafon, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay, as Lafon
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Lafon in US United States.
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
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)Lafong 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.
1,588 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Lafong?
- A machine transcription gives /ləfɔŋ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lafong have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Lafon, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lafong most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Lafong itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Uruguay's: the national register counts about 1 in 21 thousand people named Lafon.
- How common is the name Lafong?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,588 people named Lafon in 2010, about 1 in 209 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Lafong?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lafongThe 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, “Lafong”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.