Lakey
surname · Latin script
Meaning: unexplained
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Lakey is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 30Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 71K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 74K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 267 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
4,025 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)unexplained.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lakey 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 | — | 4,025 | 1 in 83K | 4K | Lakey | 267 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Lakey | 36 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Lakey | 108 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 101K | 1 | Lakey | 53 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 71K | 1 | Lakey | 66 |
| KP North Korea | #790 | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Lakey | 2 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Lakey | 3 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Lakey | 7 |
4,025 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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)- George Lakeyb. 1937USAmerican activist, sociologist, and writer
- Todd LakeyUSAmerican congressman in Idaho
- Jeremy H. LakeyGBresearcher
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lakey mean, and where does it come from?
- unexplained. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Lakey have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.0 thousand people named Lakey, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lakey.
- How common is the name Lakey?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,025 people named Lakey in 2010, about 1 in 83 thousand residents.
- How common is Lakey compared with other names?
- In North Korea, Lakey is the 790th most common surname of 2,439 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lakeyThe 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, “Lakey” — the 790th most common surname in North Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.