Lavega
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/laβeɣa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lavega is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 2.7K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 50K
- ARArgentina1 in 156K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Lavega 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Lavega | 23 |
| UY Uruguay | #480 | 1,267 | 1 in 2.7K | 1.3K | Lavega | 22 |
| AR Argentina | — | 291 | 1 in 156K | 291 | Lavega | 28 |
| ES Spain | — | 159 | 1 in 315K | 159 | Lavega | 39 |
| US United States | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | listed | Lavega | 45 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 702K | — | Lavega | 11 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Lavega is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, pilsēta Dominikānas Republikā, 98400 iedzīvotāju (2002. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.3K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 291 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 159 | #19,621 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 159 | #19,583 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Lavega?
- A machine transcription gives /laβeɣa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Lavega have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Lavega in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lavega.
- Where is Lavega most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lavega is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 2.7 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lavega?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted 1,267 people named Lavega, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Lavega compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Lavega is the 480th most common surname of 57,630 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lavegaThe 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, “Lavega” — the 480th most common surname in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.