Lazar
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: the leper; first attested Thomas le Lazur 1280 AssSo (Somerset)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/leza/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lazar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- RORomania≈1 in 654(inferred from the name graph)
- HUHungary≈1 in 9K
- USUnited States1 in 55K
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 374 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 654 (inferred from the name graph)
≈33,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
the leper; first attested Thomas le Lazur 1280 AssSo (Somerset)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Lazar is read(measured from records)
Lazar is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English53%
the leper; first attested Thomas le Lazur 1280 AssSo (Somerset)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Synonym of leper: a person suffering from Hansen's disease; a person suffering any contagious disease requiring similar isolation.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish6.4%
to lasso, to rope
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Romanian5.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lazar in Romanian.
- Serbo-Croatian5.6%
osobno ime; odatle i opća riječ za 'jadnog čovjeka', 'bogalja', 'kljasta čovjeka' itd.
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
- French5.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lazar in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lazar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #257 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 654 | — | Lazar | 63 |
| US United States | — | 6,093 | 1 in 55K | 6.2K | Lazar | 374 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 5 | Lazar | 38 |
| PL Poland | — | 2,573 | 1 in 15K | 1.3K | Lazar | 3 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,154 | 1 in 23K | 2.2K | Lazar | 39 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 1,199 | 1 in 1.8K | 1.2K | — | 11 |
| HR Croatia | — | 1,165 | 1 in 3.6K | 1.2K | — | 2 |
| HU Hungary | #250 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 9K | — | Lazar | 103 |
| MD Moldova | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | 91 | — | 7 |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); e-services.md — living population register. 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)
Lazar 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.
topographic name for someone who lived in a area of cleared woodland, from laz ‘cleared woodland’ 4- the agent noun suffix -ar.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Russian, var of Lazar'.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)
- György Lázárb. 1924HUHungarian politician (1924–2014)
- Charles Edmund Horman Lazarb. 1942USvictim of the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1942–1973)
- Bob Lazarb. 1959USAmerican businessman and ufologist
- Andrew Lazarb. 1966USAmerican film producer
- Alan Lazarb. 1967ZASouth African-born composer, novelist, and member of the band Mango Groove
- Reka Zsofia Lazăr-Szabob. 1967RORomanian fencer
- János Lázárb. 1975HUHungarian politician
- Aaron Lazarb. 1976USAmerican actor and entrepreneur
- Mia Skäringerb. 1976SEnot in their usual nameSwedish comedian and actress
- Summit1gb. 1987USnot in their usual nameAmerican live streamer
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 83 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.2K | #5,427 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.1K | #5,689 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6K | #5,329 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.2K | #2,279 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.2K | #2,278 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.3K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.3K | #2,276 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.3K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.3K | #2,324 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 1.2K | #117 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 1.2K | #441 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 1K | — |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 are other forms of the name Lazar?
- In the etymology graph, Lazarus, Lazzaro and Lazare are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Lazar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 33 thousand people named Lazar in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lazar.
- How do you pronounce Lazar?
- A machine transcription gives /leza/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Lazar mean, and where does it come from?
- the leper; first attested Thomas le Lazur 1280 AssSo (Somerset) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How common is the name Lazar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,093 people named Lazar in 2010, about 1 in 55 thousand residents.
- How common is Lazar compared with other names?
- In Romania, Lazar is the 257th most common surname of 78,699 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lazarThe 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, “Lazar” — the 257th most common surname in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.