Lauro
given name · Latin script
Meaning: l.from the personal name Lauro (from Latin Laurus, meaning ‘laurel’)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lauro is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 6.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 6.4K
- USUnited States1 in 86K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 197 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)
33,125 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- LatinLaurus(measured from records)
- Lauroin(measured from records)
l.from the personal name Lauro (from Latin Laurus, meaning ‘laurel’). 2. habitational name from Lauro in Avellino province, or possibly from either of two districts so called: one in Diamente (Cosenza), the other in Sessa Aurunca (Caserta).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lauro 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 | #715 | 33,125 | 1 in 6.4K | 41K | Lauro | 143 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | Lauro | 55 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 4,742 | 1 in 3.6K | 4.7K | Lauro | 18 |
| US United States | — | 3,875 | 1 in 86K | 3.8K | Lauro | 197 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 30K | 5 | Lauro | 59 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Lauro | 20 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 436 | 1 in 7.8K | 436 | — | — |
33,125 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); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INEC — civil registry names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INE Uruguay — Nombres 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)
Lauro 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 Spanish, laurel (tree)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, pode refletir o nome lat. Laurus; geralmente indica origem toponímica
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Alloro
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Latin, dative/ablative singular of laurus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, vocative singular of Laura
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)
- Lauro Rossib. 1812ITItalian opera composer (1812–1885)
- Giacomo Matteottib. 1885ITnot in their usual nameItalian politician (1885-1924)
- Lauro Bordinb. 1890ITItalian bicycle racer (1890-1963)
- Lauro Gazzolob. 1900ITItalian actor and voice actor (1900–1970)
- Lauro De Bosisb. 1901ITItalian poet (1901-1931)
- Lauro Cavazosb. 1927USAmerican educator; George H. W. Bush administration cabinet member (1927–2022)
- Lauro Salasb. 1928MXMexican boxer (1928-1987)
- Lauro Escorelb. 1950BRBrazilian cinematographer
- Lauro Júnior Batista da Cruzb. 1980BRBrazilian footballer
- Achille Laurob. 1990ITItalian singer-songwriter
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 65 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,658 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #16,582 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #15,825 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 124 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Lauro come from?
- l.from the personal name Lauro (from Latin Laurus, meaning ‘laurel’). 2. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Lauro mean?
- Recorded meaning: l.from the personal name Lauro (from Latin Laurus, meaning ‘laurel’).
- Is Lauro a male or female name?
- Lauro is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Lauro have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 33 thousand people named Lauro, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lauro.
- Where is Lauro most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lauro is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 3.6 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lauro?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 33,125 people named Lauro in 2022, about 1 in 6.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Lauro compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Lauro is the 715th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lauroThe 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, “Lauro” — the 715th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.