Laris

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from Basque Lariz ‘oak’, topographic name for someone who lived by an oak wood or habitational name from Lariz in Bilbao province

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • HNHonduras≈1 in 199K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 232K
  • SISlovenia≈1 in 246K

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.

United States (measured from records)

605 people, 2010

Sources
95 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 199K (inferred from the name graph)

Honduras, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Laris: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Laris
  1. Basque Lariz‘oak’(measured from records)
  2. Larizin(measured from records)

from Basque Lariz ‘oak’, topographic name for someone who lived by an oak wood or habitational name from Lariz in Bilbao province.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Laris 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 Laris is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States6051 in 550K651Laris95
IT Italy≈140 est.≈1 in 464K1—3
PH Philippines≈130 est.≈1 in 848K—Laris5
BR Brazil≈86 est.≈1 in 2.4M130Laris31
AU Australia≈49 est.≈1 in 523K1——
HN Honduras≈46 est.≈1 in 199K—Laris3
SV El Salvador≈28 est.≈1 in 232K—Laris6
SI Slovenia≈9 est.≈1 in 246K36—1

605 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)

Laris is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Lãris, Láris

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Láris

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Ларис, Larrys

  • Czech surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, United States

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Lariš, Láriš

  • Hungarian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary

    Also written Láris, Làris

36 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)

Laris is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Americanized form of Larysz (see Larish).

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In Latin, dative/ablative plural of larus

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Filipino, obstinacy; stubbornness

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds

    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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

  • Tom Larisb. 1940USAmerican long-distance runner

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)

FormalEstimado Sr. Laris,Dear Mr Laris, (English)
InformalHola Laris,Hi Laris, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 43 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Laris
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020651#36,891
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010605#36,900
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000562#37,319
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

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 Laris mean, and where does it come from?
from Basque Lariz ‘oak’, topographic name for someone who lived by an oak wood or habitational name from Lariz in Bilbao province. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Laris?
A machine transcription gives /laris/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Laris have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 605 people named Laris, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled laris.
How common is the name Laris?
In the United States, the national register counted 605 people named Laris in 2010, about 1 in 550 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, “Laris”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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