Lauv
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lauv is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 492as Leevi(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 1.4Kas Лев
- BRBrazil1 in 2.4Kas Levi
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 Lauv 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 379 (measured from records)
- 1 in 492 (inferred from the name graph)
≈340,000 named Luo, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland, as Leevi
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Лев in RU Russia, FI Finland, Levi in BR Brazil, PH Philippines, Lew in US United States and Luo in CN China.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lauv 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈340,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Luo | 199 |
| US United States | — | 136,747as Levi | 1 in 2.4K | 136K | Lew | 379 |
| RU Russia | #115 | ≈98,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | #52 | Лев | 180 |
| BR Brazil | #745 | 88,228as Levi | 1 in 2.4K | 88K | Levi | 148 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Levi | 53 |
| FI Finland | #424 | 11,321as Leevi | 1 in 492 | 14K | Лев | 11 |
| SE Sweden | — | 7,165as Lo | 1 in 1.4K | 7.2K | Lev | 24 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Lauv 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 Norwegian Nynorsk, a leaf, (collectively) leaves
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, alternative form of løv
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)
- Emperor Wu of Hanb. 156not in their usual nameseventh emperor of the Han dynasty of China (157 BC–87 BC)
- Liu Shaoqib. 1898CNnot in their usual name2nd President of the People's Republic of China (1898–1969)
- Liu Xiaobob. 1955CNnot in their usual nameChinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist (1955–2017)
- Gordon Liub. 1955CNnot in their usual nameChinese martial arts film actor (born 1955)
- Andy Laub. 1961CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor, film producer, and singer
- Lucy Liub. 1968USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1968)
- Liu Yangb. 1978CNnot in their usual nameChinese astronaut
- Liu Yifeib. 1987CNnot in their usual nameChinese-American actress and singer (born 1987)
- Simu Liub. 1989CNnot in their usual nameChinese-Canadian actor and author (born 1989)
- Dallas Liub. 2001USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
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 3 sources across 2 countries.
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- In which country does Lauv have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 338 thousand people named Luo in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lauv most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Lauv itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Finland's: the national register counts about 1 in 492 people named Leevi.
- How common is the name Lauv?
- In the United States, the national register counted 136,747 people named Levi in 2020, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Lauv compared with other names?
- In Russia, Lauv is the 115th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lauv?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lauvThe 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, “Lauv” — the 115th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.