Lauk
surname · Latin script
Meaning: allium (type of plant including onion and garlic)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɫɔk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lauk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 596Kas Лаук(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 109K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 210K
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 Lauk 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- 1 in 109K (inferred from the name graph)
1,598 named Lauck, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Лаук in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, FI Finland and Lauck 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)
allium (type of plant including onion and garlic)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lauk 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,598as Lauck | 1 in 208K | 1.7K | Lauck | 5 |
| BR Brazil | 446as Lauck | 1 in 475K | 446 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 596K | — | Лаук | 79 |
| PL Poland | 161 | 1 in 238K | 84 | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 97as Lauck | 1 in 469K | 97 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 51 | 1 in 109K | 51 | Лаук | 1 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 430K | — | Лаук | 18 |
| CH Switzerland | 40 | 1 in 210K | 40 | — | — |
1,598 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Lauk 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 Lithuanian, alternative form of laukañ (“out, away”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zlm, solid food (fish or flesh) to be eaten with rice, in contrast to cooked vegetables (_sayur_), uncooked vegetables (_hulam_), and condiments (_sambal_)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In bnc, to mix, particularly of things that are notof the same type, as meat with beans
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Sundanese, flesh that is eaten; fish; flesh of a slaughtered animal
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Icelandic, indefinite accusative singular of laukur
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)
- Lucien Laukb. 1911FRcyclist (1911-2001)
- Willi Laukb. 1913DEGerman politician (1913–1965)
- Jean Laukb. 1918FRcyclist
- René Laukb. 1920FRcyclist
- Epp Laukb. 1952EEEstonian culturologist and media scholar (born 1952)
- Siiri Laukb. 1956EEEstonian philologist and librarian (1956-2012)
- Andres Laukb. 1964EEEstonian cyclist (born 1964)
- Ülar Laukb. 1968EEEstonian chess player, coach and chess journalist (born 1968)
- Katariina Untb. 1971EEnot in their usual nameEstonian actor (born 1971)
- Karl Patrick Laukb. 1997EEEstonian cyclist (born 1997)
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)
Attested in 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 110 | #139,757 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 84 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 84 | #34,439 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 77 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 77 | #36,298 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 51 | #22,359 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 40 | #22,077 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 25 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 25 | #168,311 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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 Lauk mean, and where does it come from?
- allium (type of plant including onion and garlic) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Lauk?
- A machine transcription gives /ɫɔk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lauk have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Lauck, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lauk most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lauk is densest in Finland — about 1 in 109 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lauk?
- In Poland, the national register counted 161 people named Lauk in 2026, about 1 in 238 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Lauk?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/laukThe 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, “Lauk”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.