Lanius
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Latinized form of the occupational name De VIeeschauwer ‘the butcher’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɫeɪniɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lanius is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 322K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 631K
- BEBelgium1 in 12M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 52 (measured from records)
- 1 in 322K (inferred from the name graph)
657 people
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Latinized form of the occupational name De VIeeschauwer ‘the butcher’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lanius 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.
657 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Lanius is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Berufsname zu lat. lanius 'Fleischer, Metzger'. Bearer count: 69.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In Latin, butcher
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Čakstes
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
Attested in 8 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 657 | #13,310 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 534 | #38,890 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 527 | #41,303 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 502 | #45,838 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #168,368 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Lanius mean, and where does it come from?
- Latinized form of the occupational name De VIeeschauwer ‘the butcher’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lanius?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫeɪniɪs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lanius have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 657 people named Lanius, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lanius.
- Where is Lanius most common?
- Lanius is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 322 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lanius?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 657 people named Lanius, about 1 in 322 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/laniusThe 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, “Lanius”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.