Lasota
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the medieval personal name Lasota (from Polish las ‘wood’, ‘forest’), adopted as an equivalent of the Latin personal name Sylvester (which is from Latin jz7va ‘wood’, ‘forest’)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Lasota is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 76Kas Лясота(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 464Kas Лясота
- PLPoland1 in 4K
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 Lasota itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 91 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
9,453 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Лясота in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, BY Belarus and Lyasota in US United States.
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)
- Polishlas(measured from records)
- Latinjz7va(measured from records)
from the medieval personal name Lasota (from Polish las ‘wood’, ‘forest’), adopted as an equivalent of the Latin personal name Sylvester (which is from Latin jz7va ‘wood’, ‘forest’).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lasota 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.
9,453 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; MVČR — living population register 2017; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Lasota is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Esperanto, singular future passive participle of lasi
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)
- Beata Lasotab. 15601560 -
- Stefan Lasotab. 1910PLPolish association football player (1910-1976)
- Bronisława Lasotab. 1913PLPolish Righteous Among the Nations
- Władysława Lasotab. 1915PLPolish Righteous Among the Nations
- Grzegorz Lasotab. 1929PLPolish journalist and film director
- Czesław Lasotab. 1932PLPolish actor
- Marek Lasotab. 1960PLPolish historian
- Edvard Lasotab. 1971CZCzech soccer player, soccer representant and soccer coach
- Jakub Lasotab. 1975PLactor
- Dominika Lasotb. 2001PLnot in their usual namePolish climate justice activist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4.8K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4.8K | #411 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4.6K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4.6K | #416 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 986 | #25,152 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 970 | #24,224 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 939 | #27,218 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 191 | #8,913 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 191 | #5,752 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 70 | #7,738 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Lasota mean, and where does it come from?
- from the medieval personal name Lasota (from Polish las ‘wood’, ‘forest’), adopted as an equivalent of the Latin personal name Sylvester (which is from Latin jz7va ‘wood’, ‘forest’). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Lasota have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 9.5 thousand people named Lasota, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lasota most common?
- Lasota is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lasota?
- In Poland, the national register counted 9,453 people named Lasota in 2026, about 1 in 4.0 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lasotaThe 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, “Lasota”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.