Lavan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: third-person plural present indicative of lavar (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/laβan/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Lavan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 1,026 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 270Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 280Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 324K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 232 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 107K (inferred from the name graph)
1,026 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Lavan
- Spanish:/laβan/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)third-person plural present indicative of lavar
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Lavan is found
(measured from records)Lavan 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 | 1,026 | 1 in 324K | 1.2K | Lavan | 232 |
| PE Peru | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 130K | — | Lavan | 15 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 280K | — | Lavan | 69 |
| DE Germany | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 504K | — | Lavan | 33 |
| AU Australia | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 271K | 1 | Lavan | 50 |
| IL Israel | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | Lavan | 18 |
| SG Singapore | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 144K | — | Lavan | 9 |
| QA Qatar | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 139K | — | Lavan | 2 |
1,026 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 2020; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)Lavan is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
nickname meaning ‘white’ in Hebrew.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
unexplained. _405_
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Finnish, genitive singular of lava
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)- Spencer Lavanb. 1937USAmerican minister
- Al Lavanb. 1946USAmerican football coach (1946-2018)
- Samuel Lavanb. 1982BEIsraeli-Belgian 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)42 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lavan mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person plural present indicative of lavar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Lavan?
- In the etymology graph, Laban is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Lavan?
- In Spanish /laβan/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Lavan?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Lavan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lavan. After it come Peru, United Kingdom, Germany and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Lavan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,026 people named Lavan in 2010, about 1 in 324 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Lavan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lavanThe 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, “Lavan” — ranked 22081st in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.