Lassalle
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Frenchified spelling of Lossal, a habitational name from Loslau, the German name of Wlodislaw Slgski in Silesia (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/lassalle/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain
Lassalle is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 9.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 41K
- ARArgentina1 in 65K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 256 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Lassalle
- Spanish:/lassalle/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Frenchified spelling of Lossal, a habitational name from Loslau, the German name of Wlodislaw Slgski in Silesia.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Lassalle is found
(measured from records)Lassalle 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #747 | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | 838 | Lassalle | 256 |
| AR Argentina | — | 697 | 1 in 65K | 697 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 620 | 1 in 537K | 662 | Lassalle | 105 |
| PR Puerto Rico | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Lassalle | 5 |
| ES Spain | — | 96 | 1 in 521K | 96 | Lassalle | 7 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 83 | 1 in 41K | 83 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)Lassalle is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Jewish name from Lassei < ON Loßlau, Upper Silesia
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Croatian, jedan od utemeljitelja njemačkog socijalističkog pokreta, preteča socijaldemokratske teoretske misli
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)- Ferdinand Lassalleb. 1825PLGerman jurist and socialist (1825–1864)
- Jacques Lassalleb. 1936FRFrench actor and theatre director (1936-2018)
- Jean Lassalleb. 1955FRFrench politician (b. 1955)
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lassalle mean, and where does it come from?
- Frenchified spelling of Lossal, a habitational name from Loslau, the German name of Wlodislaw Slgski in Silesia. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lassalle?
- In Spanish /lassalle/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Lassalle?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.0 thousand people named Lassalle in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lassalle. After it come Argentina, United States, Puerto Rico and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Lassalle?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 697 people named Lassalle, about 1 in 65 thousand residents.
- How common is Lassalle compared with other names?
- In France, Lassalle is the 747th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lassalleThe 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, “Lassalle” — the 747th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.