Liakos
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic from the personal name Lias, short form of Elias
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ʎakos/(machine-generated) Greek · model-generated · read from λιακος
Liakos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Greece than in any other country.
- GRGreece≈1 in 9.3Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 380Kfew records
- BEBelgium1 in 488K
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.
- Greece (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 163 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Greece, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Λιακος in GR Greece.
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)patronymic from the personal name Lias, short form of Elias. Patronymics ending in -akos are characteristic of the Mani peninsula in the southwestern Peloponnese.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Liakos is found
(measured from records)Liakos 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GR Greece | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | 12 | Λιακος | 54 |
| US United States | 384 | 1 in 866K | 393 | Liakos | 163 |
| GH Ghana | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 232K | — | Liakos | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 510K | — | Liakos | 20 |
| DE Germany | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 948K | — | Liakos | 33 |
| AU Australia | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 379K | — | Liakos | 40 |
| BE Belgium | 24 | 1 in 488K | 24 | Liakos | 5 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 143K | — | Liakos | 5 |
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 2000; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Liakos Evangelosb. 1989GRGreek MP
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Liakos come from?
- patronymic from the personal name Lias, short form of Elias. Patronymics ending in -akos are characteristic of the Mani peninsula in the southwestern Peloponnese. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Liakos?
- In Greek /ʎakos/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Liakos mean?
- Recorded meaning: patronymic from the personal name Lias, short form of Elias.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Liakos?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Liakos in Greece, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled λιακος. After it come United States, Ghana, United Kingdom and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Liakos?
- In the United States, the national register counted 384 people named Liakos in 2010, about 1 in 866 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Liakos?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/liakosThe 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, “Liakos”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.