Lakei
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɫəkeɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lakei is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 106Kas Лакей(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 598K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 701K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lakei 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 63 (measured from records)
- 1 in 598K (inferred from the name graph)
≈420 named Лакей, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Лакей in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan.
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.
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lakei 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 106K | — | Лакей | 25 |
| RU Russia | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Лакей | 63 |
| PL Poland | 64 | 1 in 598K | 34 | Lakei | 3 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Лакей | 12 |
| EE Estonia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 701K | listed | — | 1 |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Lakei is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, a lackey, a footman, a liveried servant, an attendant
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 34 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 34 | #64,361 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 30 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 30 | #70,163 |
Reference works 1
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 Lakei?
- A machine transcription gives /ɫəkeɪ/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- In which country does Lakei have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 415 people named Лакей in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lakei most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lakei is densest in Poland — about 1 in 598 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lakei?
- In Poland, the national register counted 64 people named Lakei in 2026, about 1 in 598 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Lakei?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lakeiThe 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, “Lakei”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.