Lajos
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Louis
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lajos is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 26th most common given name.
- HUHungary1 in 160(measured from records)
- RORomania≈1 in 17K
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
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.
- Hungary (measured from records)
- Sources
- 195 (measured from records)
- 1 in 160 (inferred from the name graph)
61,165 people, 2025
Highest-authority source
Hungary
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name, equivalent to English Louis
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lajos 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | #26 | 61,165 | 1 in 160 | 61K | Lajos | 195 |
| RO Romania | #508 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Lajos | 39 |
| SE Sweden | — | 291 | 1 in 35K | 291 | Lajos | 23 |
| US United States | — | 251 | 1 in 1.3M | 244 | Lajos | 162 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Lajos | 18 |
| SK Slovakia | #495 | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Lajos | 41 |
| HR Croatia | — | 101 | 1 in 42K | 101 | — | 2 |
61,165 people counted by Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025), 2025. 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: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
Lajos 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.
Guerrero famoso
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Hungarian form of LOUIS .
as a word
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)
- Ludwik Węgierskib. 1326HUnot in their usual nameKing of Hungary, Poland and Croatia
- Louis II, King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemiab. 1506HUnot in their usual nameKing of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia (1506–1526)
- Lajos Kossuthb. 1802HUHungarian politician (1802–1894)
- Lajos Batthyányb. 1807HUHungarian politician (1807–1849)
- Lajos Kassákb. 1887HUHungarian artist, poet, writer, politician (1887-1967)
- Marcel Breuerb. 1902USnot in their usual nameHungarian-American architect (1902-1981)
- John von Neumannb. 1903HUnot in their usual nameHungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
- Cornel Wildeb. 1912USnot in their usual nameHungarian-American actor and film director
- Lajos Tichyb. 1935HUHungarian footballer (1935-1999)
- Lajos Koltaib. 1946HU(1946–) Hungarian cinematographer and director
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 45 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2025 | 61K | #22 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 291 | #3,998 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 244 | #33,126 |
| HU Hungary | magyarnevek — given names by decade | 1997 | 208 | #58 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 175 | — |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 newborn names (2020–2024) | 2020 | 98 | #93 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7 | #33,126 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Lajos mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Louis Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Lajos a male or female name?
- Lajos is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Lajos?
- In the etymology graph, Luis, Luiz and Lois are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Lajos have the most bearers?
- In Hungary, the national register counted about 61 thousand people named Lajos, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lajos.
- Where is Lajos most common?
- Lajos is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 160 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lajos?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 61,165 people named Lajos in 2025, about 1 in 160 residents.
- How common is Lajos compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Lajos is the 26th most common given name of 18,528 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lajosThe 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, “Lajos” — the 26th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.