Lazzara
surname · Latin script
Meaning: possibly from a feminine form of the personal name Lazzaro, but more likely a derivative of I’Azzara, from azzdra ‘flower’, ‘blossom’, from Arabic azzaharah (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ladd͡zara/(machine-generated) Italian · model-generated · uncertain
Lazzara is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 85K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 210Kfew records
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 236 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Lazzara
- Italian:/ladd͡zara/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Spanish:/laθθaɾa/(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)possibly from a feminine form of the personal name Lazzaro, but more likely a derivative of I’Azzara, from azzdra ‘flower’, ‘blossom’, from Arabic azzaharah.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Lazzara is found
(measured from records)Lazzara 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 18K | listed | Lazzara | 79 |
| US United States | 1,380 | 1 in 241K | 1.4K | Lazzara | 236 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 241K | — | Lazzara | 37 |
| CA Canada | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 246K | — | Lazzara | 43 |
| DE Germany | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 542K | — | Lazzara | 41 |
| AU Australia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 213K | — | Lazzara | 36 |
| CH Switzerland | 99 | 1 in 85K | 99 | Lazzara | 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; the xinhua-italian-manual register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Lazzara 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 Italian, forma fem. de Lazzaro
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)- Gaetano Lazzarab. 1700ITItalian architect
- Bernadette Petersb. 1948USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and singer (born 1948)
- Adam Lazzarab. 1981USAmerican singer
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lazzara mean, and where does it come from?
- possibly from a feminine form of the personal name Lazzaro, but more likely a derivative of I’Azzara, from azzdra ‘flower’, ‘blossom’, from Arabic azzaharah. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lazzara?
- It depends on the language: in Italian /ladd͡zara/; in Spanish /laθθaɾa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Lazzara?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Lazzara in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lazzara. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Lazzara?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,380 people named Lazzara in 2010, about 1 in 241 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/lazzaraThe 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, “Lazzara”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.