Lemmo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the personal name Lemmo, a pet form of Guglielmo, Italian equivalent of William
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɫɛmoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lemmo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 47K(measured from records)
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 101K
- ARArgentina1 in 203K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 47K (inferred from the name graph)
548 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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 the personal name Lemmo, a pet form of Guglielmo, Italian equivalent of William. Compare Lembo.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lemmo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 548 | 1 in 607K | 548 | — |
| AR Argentina | 224 | 1 in 203K | 224 | — |
| UY Uruguay | 72 | 1 in 47K | 72 | — |
| BR Brazil | 56 | 1 in 3.8M | 56 | — |
| ES Spain | 16 | 1 in 3.1M | 16 | — |
| CH Switzerland | 10 | 1 in 840K | 10 | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 1 | 1 in 101K | 1 | — |
548 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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)
Lemmo 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 Italian, apelativo coloquial, derivado de Guglielmo.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, a surname transferred from the given name
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, dative/ablative singular of lemmus
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)
- Angelina Lemmob. 1933VEVenezuelan university teacher
- Lucio Lemmob. 1946ITItalian priest
- James Lemmob. 1949USAmerican photographer, film director, cinematographer and screenwriter
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 19 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 548 | #40,016 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 540 | #38,524 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 526 | #44,069 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 224 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 72 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 56 | #96,827 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 16 | #94,489 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 10 | #60,931 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 1 | #261 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Lemmo come from?
- from the personal name Lemmo, a pet form of Guglielmo, Italian equivalent of William. Compare Lembo. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lemmo?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫɛmoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Lemmo mean?
- Recorded meaning: from the personal name Lemmo, a pet form of Guglielmo, Italian equivalent of William.
- In which country does Lemmo have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 548 people named Lemmo, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lemmo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lemmo is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 47 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lemmo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 548 people named Lemmo in 2010, about 1 in 607 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/lemmoThe 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, “Lemmo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.