Lakka
surname · Latin script
Meaning: varnish, lacquer
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/lekə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lakka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 2.6M(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 11K
- PLPoland1 in 111Kas Lekka
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lakka 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
2,578 named Lucky, 2010
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
varnish, lacquer
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lakka 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.
2,578 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling lucky. 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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Lakka is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Icelandic, to lacquer, varnish, enamel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In urj-fin-pro, canopy, shelter
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vot, flat, smooth
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In rob, split, burst
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Marjo-Riitta Lakkab. 1955FIFinnish middle-distance runner
- Pekka Lakkab. 1963FIFinnish journalist
- Elmo Lakkab. 1993FIFinnish hurdler
- Timo A. LakkaFIresearcher
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 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 903 | #4,235 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 506 | #9,099 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 500 | #3,456 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 225 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Lakka mean, and where does it come from?
- varnish, lacquer Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Lakka?
- A machine transcription gives /lekə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Lakka have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.6 thousand people named Lucky, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lakka most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lakka is densest in Finland — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lakka?
- In India, the national register counted 506 people named Lakka, about 1 in 2.6 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/lakkaThe 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, “Lakka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.