Laki
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɫæki/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Laki is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *laki.
- RSSerbia≈1 in 52K(inferred from the name graph)
- WSSamoa≈1 in 55K
- PGPapua New Guinea≈1 in 97K
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 41 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 52K (inferred from the name graph)
≈400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Serbia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *laki.
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Laki 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Laki | 3 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Laki | 8 |
| US United States | 141 | 1 in 2.4M | 75 | Laki | 20 |
| RS Serbia | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Laki | 2 |
| IT Italy | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 695K | — | Laki | 1 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 97K | 5 | — | 1 |
| SI Slovenia | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 247K | 14 | — | — |
| WS Samoa | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 55K | #34 | — | — |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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)
Laki is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In btx, vocative for ‘grandfather’
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Javanese, husband
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In niu, West
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In iba, male; husband; male of a pair, e.g. of mortice and tenon joint, press-studs
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Sundanese, man; male, masculine (only in combination); pestle (used with mortar)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Finnish, act (a specific legal statute, inferior to a constitution)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kálmán Lakib. 1909HUHungarian-American biochemist
- Ida Lakib. 1921HUHungarian painter (1921–2015)
- Krisztina Lakib. 1944HUHungarian singer, opera singer and music educator
- Katalin Lakib. 1948HUHungarian handball player
- Walter Lakib. 1951ATAustrian politician
- Péter Lakib. 1989HUHungarian actor operetta singer, history teacher
- Otandeka Lakib. 1996USAmerican soccer 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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 14 | #16,468 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022) | — | 5 | #31 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Laki mean, and where does it come from?
- From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *laki. Recorded by Wiktionary and Családnevek enciklopédiája.
- How do you pronounce Laki?
- A machine transcription gives /ɫæki/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Laki a male or female name?
- Laki is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Laki have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 399 people named Laki in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled laki.
- How common is the name Laki?
- In the United States, the national register counted 141 people named Laki in 2020, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lakiThe 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, “Laki”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.