Lantos

surname · Latin script

Meaning: LAUREANO

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

/ˈɫæntoʊs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Lantos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 537K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 560K
  • DKDenmark1 in 652K

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.

United States (measured from records)

140 people, 2010

Sources
26 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 537K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

LAUREANO

Sources 1

  • 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lantos 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 Lantos is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1401 in 2.4M146Lantos26
ES Spain211 in 2.4M21Lantos5
SE Sweden191 in 537K19——
AR Argentina181 in 2.5M18Lantos23
CH Switzerland151 in 560K15—1
DK Denmark91 in 652K9——
CZ Czechia91 in 1.2M9——

140 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)

Lantos is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Slovak surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia

    Also written Lantoš

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Lantoš

  • Swedish name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Lantoș

  • Romanian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania

    Also written Lanțoș, Lantoș, Lanțos

28 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19001920194019601980Olivér Lantos, b. 1917Tom Lantos, b. 1928Mihály Lantos, b. 1928László Lantos, b. 1938Péter Lantos, b. 1939Robert Lantos, b. 1949István Lantos, b. 1949Zoltán Lantos, b. 1962Csaba Lantos, b. 1962Levente Lantos, b. 1980

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)

FormalDear Lantos,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Lantos
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020146#123,817
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010140#123,064
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000121#129,619
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—21#82,619
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—21#80,648
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—19#26,438
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—18—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202415#45,119
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—9#85,451
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—9#43,849
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 Lantos mean, and where does it come from?
LAUREANO Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
How do you pronounce Lantos?
A machine transcription gives /ˈɫæntoʊs/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Lantos have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 140 people named Lantos, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lantos.
Where is Lantos most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lantos is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 537 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Lantos?
In the United States, the national register counted 140 people named Lantos in 2010, about 1 in 2.4 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, “Lantos”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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