Laku
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
Laku is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 18Kas Lack(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 28Kas Lock
- BEBelgium1 in 29Kas Luc
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 Laku itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
6,936 named Lock, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland, as Lack
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Luc in NL Netherlands, BE Belgium and Lock in US United States.
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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Laku 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 | 6,936as Lock | 1 in 48K | 6.9K | Lock | 9 |
| NL Netherlands | 527as Lock | 1 in 33K | 6.4K | Luc | 3 |
| BR Brazil | 518as Lock | 1 in 409K | 518 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 455as Lack | 1 in 18K | 455 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 398as Luc | 1 in 29K | 398 | Luc | 5 |
| DK Denmark | 208as Lock | 1 in 28K | 208 | — | — |
6,936 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Laku 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 tet, a small savage carnivorous four-legged animal
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In bkd, small mammal of he feline family; civet cat
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Polish, genitive/locative/vocative singular of lak
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, liquorice, small piece of liquorice
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, deed, act, action, behavior
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mbb, a small dog-like animal
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
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
- Is Laku a male or female name?
- Laku 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 Laku have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.9 thousand people named Lock, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Laku most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Laku itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Switzerland's: the national register counts about 1 in 18 thousand people named Lack.
- How common is the name Laku?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,936 people named Lock in 2010, about 1 in 48 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Laku?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lakuThe 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, “Laku”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.