Lavia
surname · Latin script
Meaning: composto de la e Via
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/labja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lavia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 40K(measured from records)
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 162
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 27K
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 65 (measured from records)
- 1 in 162 (inferred from the name graph)
1,147 people
Highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
composto de la e Via
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lavia 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | 1,147 | 1 in 40K | 1.1K | Lavia | 53 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 626 | 1 in 162 | 626 | — | — |
| IT Italy | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 136K | listed | Lavia | 10 |
| US United States | 230 | 1 in 1.4M | 251 | Lavia | 65 |
| BR Brazil | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 706 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 101 | 1 in 55K | 101 | — | — |
| GD Grenada | 4 | 1 in 28K | 4 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 2 | 1 in 27K | 2 | — | — |
1,147 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the xinhua-italian-manual register; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)
Lavia 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 Finnish, a former municipality of Satakunta, Finland, merged with Pori in 2015.
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)
- Giuseppe Laviab. 1884ITItalian politician
- Gabriele Laviab. 1942ITItalian actor, film director and theatre director
- Lorenzo Laviab. 1972ITItalian actor
- Elisa Laviab. 1979ITassociation football player
- Antonio Laviab. 1994ITvolleyball player
- Lorenzo Laviab. 1997ITvolleyball player
- Daniele Laviab. 1999ITItalian volleyball player
- Patrizia Laviab. 2000ITresearcher
- Roméo Laviab. 2004BEBelgian association football player
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 33 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.1K | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 626 | #22 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 251 | #81,311 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 241 | #74,675 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 230 | #82,044 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 172 | #41,551 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 101 | #12,667 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 59 | — |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 4 | #219 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 2 | #180 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- What does the name Lavia mean, and where does it come from?
- composto de la e Via Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Lavia?
- A machine transcription gives /labja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Lavia have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Lavia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lavia.
- Where is Lavia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lavia is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 162 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lavia?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,147 people named Lavia, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/laviaThe 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, “Lavia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.