Lauan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Any of several types of light wood, resembling mahogany, from various trees from the Philippines and Malaysia
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: IBGE, 2022
/lawɐ̃/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Lauan is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 79K(measured from records)
- USUnited States≈1 in 20Mfew records
- INIndia≈1 in 100M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 44 (measured from records)
- 1 in 79K (inferred from the name graph)
2,692 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Any of several types of light wood, resembling mahogany, from various trees from the Philippines and Malaysia.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lauan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 2,692 | 1 in 79K | 2.7K | Lauan | 44 |
| US United States | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 20M | listed | Lauan | 20 |
| IN India | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 102M | 1 | — | 1 |
| AU Australia | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 6.4M | — | Lauan | 5 |
| DE Germany | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 20M | listed | Lauan | 7 |
2,692 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); the de-munich-vornamen register; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)Lauan 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 Basque, inessive inanimate singular of lau
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.
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 2.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.6K | #4,180 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 2.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.2K | #8,130 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 1.2K | #3,358 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 1.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 1.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 937 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 402 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 182 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 165 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 51 | #4,180 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lauan mean, and where does it come from?
- Any of several types of light wood, resembling mahogany, from various trees from the Philippines and Malaysia. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Lauan?
- In Portuguese /lawɐ̃/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Lauan a male or female name?
- Lauan is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Brazil (IBGE, 2022).
- In which country does Lauan have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Lauan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lauan.
- Where is Lauan most common?
- Lauan is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 79 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lauan?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,692 people named Lauan in 2022, about 1 in 79 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lauanThe 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, “Lauan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.