Lawo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from ON in East Prussia; cf
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lawo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 186Kas Lavo(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 834Kas Lavo
- CZCzechia1 in 1.1Mas Lavo
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 Lawo 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- 1 in 186K (inferred from the name graph)
254 named Lavo
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland, as Lavo
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled ละโว้ in TH Thailand.
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(measured from records)
from ON in East Prussia; cf. Lawe
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lawo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 254as Lavo | 1 in 834K | 254 | — | — |
| US United States | 136as Lavo | 1 in 2.4M | 136 | — | 3 |
| TH Thailand | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | #556,208 | ละโว้ | 21 |
| FI Finland | 30as Lavo | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 10as Lavo | 1 in 1.1M | 10 | — | — |
254 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Lawo 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.
In nr, these; class 6 distal demonstrative.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Zulu, those; class 6 distal demonstrative.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, vocative singular of lawa
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
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
- Where does the name Lawo come from?
- from ON in East Prussia; cf. Lawe Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What does the name Lawo mean?
- Recorded meaning: from ON in East Prussia; cf.
- In which country does Lawo have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 254 people named Lavo, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lawo most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Lawo itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Finland's: the national register counts about 1 in 186 thousand people named Lavo.
- How common is the name Lawo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 254 people named Lavo, about 1 in 834 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Lawo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lawoThe 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, “Lawo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.