Ligus

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/lajəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Ligus is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 74K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 2.2M
  • CZCzechia1 in 2.7M

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.

Poland (measured from records)

518 people, 2026

Sources
27 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 74K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ligus 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.

Where Ligus is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland5181 in 74K265Ligus27
US United States1531 in 2.2M162Ligus3
CZ Czechia41 in 2.7M4——
EE Estonia——listed——

518 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ligus is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Liguš

  • Slovak surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Liguš

23 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ligus 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.

  • In Latin, A Ligurian, a native or inhabitant of Liguria.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Esperanto, conditional of ligi

    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)

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)

FormalDear Ligus,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Ligus
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026265—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—265#12,572
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026253—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—253#12,915
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000162#102,691
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010153#114,424
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020143#125,732
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—4#139,391
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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

How do you pronounce Ligus?
A machine transcription gives /lajəs/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Ligus have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 518 people named Ligus, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ligus.
Where is Ligus most common?
Ligus is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 74 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Ligus?
In Poland, the national register counted 518 people named Ligus in 2026, about 1 in 74 thousand residents.

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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, “Ligus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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