Lakum

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Biblical name

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Lakum is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 41M(measured from records)
  • THThailand≈1 in 83Kas หล้าก่ำ
  • IDIndonesia≈1 in 2M

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 Lakum 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.

Thailand (inferred from the name graph)

≈830 named หล้าก่ำ, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
63 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.0M (inferred from the name graph)

Indonesia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

LakumLatin(measured from records)
หล้าก่ำThai(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled หล้าก่ำ in TH Thailand.

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(measured from records)

Biblical name

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lakum 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.

Where Lakum is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TH Thailand≈830 est.≈1 in 83K#568,886หล้าก่ำ48
ID Indonesia≈130 est.≈1 in 2M—Lakum13
NG Nigeria≈71 est.≈1 in 3M—Lakum3
IN India321 in 41M32Lakum63
DE Germany≈18 est.≈1 in 4.5M—Lakum13
MY Malaysia≈15 est.≈1 in 2.2M—Lakum7

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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Lakum is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Ukrainian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Malaysia

    Also written Лакум

32 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Lakum is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In hil, to deceive; to cheat; to swindle

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Lakum
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—32#58,652
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—29#50,440
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—6#29,785

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Lakum mean, and where does it come from?
Biblical name Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
In which country does Lakum have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 831 people named หล้าก่ำ in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Lakum?
In India, the national register counted 32 people named Lakum, about 1 in 41 million residents.

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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, “Lakum”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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