Lagos
loc · Latin script
Meaning: nickname for a timid person or a fast runner, from Greek lagos ‘hare’, or a reduced form of a patronymic based on such a nickname, such as Lagoudakis
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/laɣos/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lagos is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chile than in any other country.
- CLChile≈1 in 622(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 45K
- UYUruguay1 in 1.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Chile (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 243 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 622 (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
nickname for a timid person or a fast runner, from Greek lagos ‘hare’, or a reduced form of a patronymic based on such a nickname, such as Lagoudakis.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lagos 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.
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: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the co-datosgov-candidates 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lagos 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.
habitational name from any of the numerous places named Lagos, especially in Galicia.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, city, state, Nigeria
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, town, Portugal
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, region, Chile
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In French, a male given name from Ancient Greek, of historical usage, equivalent to English Lagus
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- José María Peralta Lagosb. 1873SVSalvadoran engineer (1873-1944)
- Ricardo Lagosb. 1938CLChilean politician, president of Chile from 2000 to 2006
- Julio César Cortésb. 1941UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan footballer
- Ricardo Lagos Weberb. 1962CLChilean politician
- Edith Lagosb. 1962PEPeruvian revolutionary (1962-1982)
- Sergio Lagosb. 1972CLChilean journalist
- Ioannis Lagosb. 1972GRGreek MEP and criminal
- Penelope Lagosb. 1980USAmerican actress
- Diego Lagosb. 1986ARArgentine footballer
- Tasos Lagosb. 1992GRfootballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 12K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 4.7K | #2,367 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.9K | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 6 | #110 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Lagos mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname for a timid person or a fast runner, from Greek lagos ‘hare’, or a reduced form of a patronymic based on such a nickname, such as Lagoudakis. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lagos?
- A machine transcription gives /laɣos/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Lagos have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Lagos in Chile, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lagos.
- How common is the name Lagos?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 11,684 people named Lagos, about 1 in 3.9 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lagosThe 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, “Lagos”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.