Lagunas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the plural of laguna ‘pool’, ‘pond’ (see Laguna)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/laɣunas/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lagunas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CLChile≈1 in 20K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 40K
- USUnited States1 in 47K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 231 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
7,080 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the plural of laguna ‘pool’, ‘pond’ (see Laguna).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lagunas 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 | — | 7,080 | 1 in 47K | 7.1K | Lagunas | 231 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,246 | 1 in 40K | 1.2K | Lagunas | 93 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Lagunas | 71 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | Lagunas | 13 |
| AR Argentina | — | 220 | 1 in 207K | 220 | Lagunas | 35 |
| SV El Salvador | #833 | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Lagunas | 4 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Lagunas | 5 |
| MX Mexico | #665 | — | — | 614 | Lagunas | 152 |
7,080 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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Cosme San Martínb. 1850CLnot in their usual nameChilean painter (1850-1906)
- José María Jauregib. 1896ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player (1896-1988)
- Santiago Lagunasb. 1912ESSpanish architect and painter (1912-1995)
- Simon Lagunasb. 1912FRFrench wood sculptor of Spanish origin, communist activist, volunteer in the Spanish Civil War
- Miguel Ángel Lagunas Hernándezb. 1951ESresearcher
- Jessica Lagunasb. 1971NIartist
- Johana Gustawssonb. 1978FRnot in their usual nameFrench novelist
- Teodor JovéESnot in their usual nameSpanish computer scientist
- Eva LagunasESresearcher, University of Luxembourg, ORCID ID = 0000-0002-9936-7245
- Natalia LagunasESresearcher
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 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.1K | #4,966 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.4K | #5,262 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.7K | #6,700 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.2K | #3,653 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.2K | #3,650 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 614 | #534 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 220 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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)
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 Lagunas mean, and where does it come from?
- from the plural of laguna ‘pool’, ‘pond’ (see Laguna). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lagunas?
- A machine transcription gives /laɣunas/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Lagunas have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.1 thousand people named Lagunas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lagunas.
- How common is the name Lagunas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,080 people named Lagunas in 2010, about 1 in 47 thousand residents.
- How common is Lagunas compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Lagunas is the 665th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lagunasThe 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, “Lagunas” — the 665th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.