Laux
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a vernacular form of the personal name Lucas
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɫɔks/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Laux is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 80K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 97K
- BRBrazil1 in 141K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 151 (measured from records)
- 1 in 80K (inferred from the name graph)
4,176 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a vernacular form of the personal name Lucas.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Laux 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 | — | 4,176 | 1 in 80K | 4.2K | Laux | 145 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,498 | 1 in 141K | 1.5K | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 87 | 1 in 97K | 87 | Laux | 8 |
| ES Spain | — | 25 | 1 in 2M | 25 | Laux | 1 |
| PL Poland | — | 18 | 1 in 2.1M | 12 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 15 | 1 in 680K | 15 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 13 | 1 in 451K | 13 | — | — |
| LU Luxembourg | #686 | — | — | — | Laux | 11 |
4,176 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)
Laux 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 Esperanto, X-system spelling of laŭ
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In za, old; aged; elderly
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)
- Carl Lauxb. 1873DEGerman politician (1873-1953)
- Paul Lauxb. 1887DEGerman General and Knight's Cross recipients (1887–1944)
- Karl Lauxb. 1896DEGerman politician and musicologist (1896-1978)
- France Lauxb. 1897USAmerican sports announcer
- Werner Lauxb. 1902DEpainter and university teacher (1902-1975)
- Dorianne Lauxb. 1952USAmerican poet (born 1952)
- Philipp Lauxb. 1973DEGerman footballer
- Jonas Lauxb. 1982DEGerman actor
- Douglas Lauxb. 1983USformer CIA officer
- Oliver Lauxb. 1990DEGerman footballer
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 25 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.2K | #7,925 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.6K | #8,406 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.6K | #8,732 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.5K | #6,355 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 87 | #12,314 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 25 | #72,769 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 25 | #71,513 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 15 | #31,376 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 13 | #32,275 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 12 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 12 | #121,402 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Laux mean, and where does it come from?
- from a vernacular form of the personal name Lucas. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Laux?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫɔks/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Laux have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.2 thousand people named Laux, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled laux.
- Where is Laux most common?
- Laux is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 80 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Laux?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,176 people named Laux in 2010, about 1 in 80 thousand residents.
- How common is Laux compared with other names?
- In Luxembourg, Laux is the 686th most common surname of 1,851 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lauxThe 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, “Laux” — the 686th most common surname in Luxembourg. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.