Lakeman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 'Dweller by the stream'; first attested John Lakeman 1320 HPD (Ess)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɫeɪkmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lakeman is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
- NLNetherlands
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
'Dweller by the stream'; first attested John Lakeman 1320 HPD (Ess).
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lakeman 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 English, topographic name for someone who lived by a lake or pond.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, variant of Lake.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Balthazar Lakemanb. 1697publisher based in Amsterdam
- Enid Lakemanb. 1903GBBritish activist
- Al Lakemanb. 1918USbaseball player (1918–1976)
- Thomas Lakemanb. 1964USAmerican writer
- Sean Lakemanb. 1974GBEnglish folk musician and record producer
- Sam Lakemanb. 1975GBBritish musician
- Seth Lakemanb. 1977GBEnglish folk singer
- Avery Lakemanb. 1998CACanadian association football player
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 15 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 796 | #2,247 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 637 | #33,735 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 616 | #36,337 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 610 | #38,989 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #272,795 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #149,835 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #356,722 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #624 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Lakeman mean, and where does it come from?
- 'Dweller by the stream'; first attested John Lakeman 1320 HPD (Ess). Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Lakeman?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫeɪkmən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lakeman have the most bearers?
- Lakeman is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lakemanThe 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
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lakeman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.