laSa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Alternative form of Lhasa (capital city of Tibet): the Mandarin Chinese-derived name
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɫɑsə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
laSa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 637K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain≈1 in 2.9M
- ARArgentina≈1 in 3.6M
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 637K (inferred from the name graph)
≈170 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Alternative form of Lhasa (capital city of Tibet): the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
laSa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 637K | — | laSa | 16 |
| US United States | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 5.4M | 160 | laSa | 97 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | — | laSa | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 31 | 1 in 6.8M | 36 | laSa | 25 |
| ES Spain | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | 3.3K | laSa | 113 |
| AR Argentina | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | 738 | laSa | 48 |
| FR France | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 5.3M | 1 | laSa | 77 |
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: INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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)
laSa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, feminine singular of laso
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, Lasa Interpretation Lasa means stream. In the French Basque Country, Laxalt. History and Locality There are no caserios LASA in Bizkaia. In Gipuzkoa, there are various in Beasain, Alegia, Bergara, and Zerain. Coat of Arms En oro un arbol de sinople entre unos matorrales, y, a la siniestra del tronco un jabali de sable.
as a wordBuber's Basque Page — Surname research (Ormaetxea & Ybarra ~2003)
In bnf, blood
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, Lhasa (the capital and largest city of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, third-person singular/plural present indicative of lasīt
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)
- Ignacio Gregorio Larrañaga Lasab. 1892ESSpanish Capuchin, Bishop of Pingliang, China
- Antonio Isasi-Isasmendib. 1927ESnot in their usual nameSpanish film director, screenwriter, film editor and film producer (1927-2017)
- Miguel Maria Lasab. 1947ESSpanish road bicycle racer
- Amaia Lasab. 1948ESBasque writer
- Ion Andoni Goikoetxeab. 1965ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player
- Mikel Lasab. 1971ESSpanish footballer
- Lander Lasab. 1988ESSpanish basketball player (1988-)
- Emiliano Lasab. 1990UYUruguayan athletics competitor
- Nerea Eizagirreb. 2000ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer
- Idoia Erasob. 2002ESnot in their usual nameSpanish cyclist
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 3.3K | #1,546 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 3.3K | #1,546 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 738 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 160 | #110,286 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 154 | #119,015 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 146 | #111,740 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 36 | #131,575 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 1 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Justi, Ferdinand, Iranisches Namenbuch (1895)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 laSa mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative form of Lhasa (capital city of Tibet): the Mandarin Chinese-derived name. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce laSa?
- A machine transcription gives /ɫɑsə/ (IPA) for Georgian.
- Is laSa a male or female name?
- laSa is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does laSa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 171 people named laSa in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled laSa.
- How common is the name laSa?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 31 people named laSa in 2022, about 1 in 6.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about laSa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lasaThe 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, “laSa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.