Lasek
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Acronym of laser-assisted sub-epithelial keratectomy, photorefractive keratectomy laser surgery, a laser eye surgery technique
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈla.sɛk/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Lasek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 7.2K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 102K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 420K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lasek itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.2K (inferred from the name graph)
5,349 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)topographic name for someone who lived in a forest, from a diminutive of las ‘forest’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Lasek is read
(measured from records)Lasek is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English54%
Acronym of laser-assisted sub-epithelial keratectomy, photorefractive keratectomy laser surgery, a laser eye surgery technique.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Polish29%
diminutive of las
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lasek 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #819 | 5,349 | 1 in 7.2K | 2.7K | Lasek | 85 |
| US United States | — | 537 | 1 in 619K | 553 | Lasek | 73 |
| FI Finland | — | 149as Lisko | 1 in 37K | 149 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 546K | — | Lasek | 40 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 105 | 1 in 102K | 105 | Lasek | 28 |
| SK Slovakia | — | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Lasek | 4 |
| HR Croatia | — | 21as Lisko | 1 in 201K | 21 | — | — |
5,349 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); MVČR — living population register 2017; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)Lasek 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.
topographic name for someone who lived in a forest, from a diminutive of las ‘forest’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
diminutive of Lach, in the sense ‘Pole’ or ‘northeast Moravian’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from a pet form of the personal name (V)ladislav (see Laszlo).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
nickname from lasy ‘fond’, ‘keen’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)- Maciej Lasekb. 1967PLPolish engineer
- Bucky Lasekb. 1972USAmerican skateboarder and rally cross driver
- Anetta Lasek-BalPLPolish neurologist
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)Evidence
(measured from records)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.7K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.7K | #911 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.6K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.6K | #927 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 537 | #40,672 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 502 | #45,838 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 463 | #43,875 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 28 | #13,619 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 27 | #43,939 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 19 | #23,742 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 19 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #44,522 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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
- Where does the name Lasek come from?
- topographic name for someone who lived in a forest, from a diminutive of las ‘forest’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lasek?
- In Polish /ˈla.sɛk/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Lasek mean?
- In English, Acronym of laser-assisted sub-epithelial keratectomy, photorefractive keratectomy laser surgery, a laser eye surgery technique.
- In which country does Lasek have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 5.3 thousand people named Lasek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lasek.
- Where is Lasek most common?
- Lasek is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lasek?
- In Poland, the national register counted 5,349 people named Lasek in 2026, about 1 in 7.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Lasek compared with other names?
- In Poland, Lasek is the 819th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lasekThe 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, “Lasek” — the 819th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.