Lagua
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/laɣwa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lagua is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 33K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 148K
- USUnited States1 in 970K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 94 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Réunion, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Lagua 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Lagua | 32 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 285K | — | Lagua | 9 |
| US United States | 343 | 1 in 970K | 359 | Lagua | 94 |
| PE Peru | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 148K | — | Lagua | 23 |
| ES Spain | 185 | 1 in 270K | 185 | Lagua | 29 |
| RE Réunion | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Lagua | 1 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 139K | — | Lagua | 9 |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Lagua 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 pov, lake
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, (det.). . "Jagua de Indias, fruto del jachali" Aizk ( Lcq 102 )
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Nicolás de Laguab. 1740ESSpanish Jesuit (1740-1792)
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 13 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 359 | #60,581 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 343 | #59,017 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 223 | #79,394 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 185 | #17,532 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 185 | #17,512 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (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 Lagua?
- A machine transcription gives /laɣwa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Lagua have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Lagua in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lagua.
- How common is the name Lagua?
- In the United States, the national register counted 343 people named Lagua in 2010, about 1 in 970 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Lagua?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/laguaThe 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, “Lagua”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.