Lanes
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Lanes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Lincs, WR Yorks, and. variant of Lane with post-medieval excrescent -s.
- BRBrazil≈1 in 35K(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 35K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 88K
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.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 82 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Brazil, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Lincs, WR Yorks, and. variant of Lane with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lanes 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 104 | Lanes | 82 |
| US United States | 429 | 1 in 775K | 455 | Lanes | 47 |
| PH Philippines | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 265K | — | Lanes | 17 |
| FR France | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 208K | 30 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 156 | 1 in 35K | 156 | — | 4 |
| PT Portugal | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 245K | — | Lanes | 10 |
| EE Estonia | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 88K | listed | — | 1 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Lanes is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In mrw, to wilt, wither
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In frp, plural of lana
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)
- Mathieu Lanesb. 1660FRFrench organist and composer
- Désiré Lanesb. 1876FRFrench photographer and postcard publisher
- Arne Lanesb. 1938NONorwegian weightlifter
- Bénédicte Lanesb. 1958FRFrench politician
- Petter Lanesb. 1965NONorwegian speed skater
- Julien Lanes Marsallb. 1976FRHispanist and university professor (1976-)
- Laura Lanesb. 1998CUCuban para-badminton player
- Mikal Lanesmusher
- Geane Oliveira de LanesBRBrazilian entomologist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 5.4K | #2,133 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 455 | #49,823 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 452 | #44,738 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 429 | #49,087 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 156 | #10,081 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 66 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 56 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 53 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 49 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 47 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 44 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 43 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Lanes mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Lincs, WR Yorks, and. variant of Lane with post-medieval excrescent -s. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- In which country does Lanes have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.1 thousand people named Lanes in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lanes.
- How common is the name Lanes?
- In the United States, the national register counted 429 people named Lanes in 2010, about 1 in 775 thousand 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, “Lanes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.