Lo-On

surname · Latin script

Lo-On is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country. In the Netherlands it is the 89th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 46K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 665K

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.

Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,500 people, est.

Sources
216 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)

Malaysia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Loon in NL Netherlands, US United States, PH Philippines and 5 more.

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

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)

Lo-On 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 Lo-On is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MY Malaysia#914≈2,500 est.≈1 in 13K—Loon56
PH Philippines—≈2,400 est.≈1 in 46K—Loon39
SG Singapore—≈300 est.≈1 in 21K—Loon51
DE Germany—≈260 est.≈1 in 305K—Loon53
AU Australia—≈250 est.≈1 in 101K—Loon75
US United States—2311 in 1.4M231Loon216
CH Switzerland—≈72 est.≈1 in 116K—Loon13
NL Netherlands#89261 in 665K26Loon122

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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)

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

  • Swahili surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Malaysia, Netherlands, United States

    Also written Loon

  • Malay surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines

    Languages: Malay, Indonesian

    Also written Loon

8 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)

Lo-On 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 Esperanto, accusative singular of lo

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Lo-On under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Lo-On have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Lo-On in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled loon.
How common is the name Lo-On?
In the United States, the national register counted 231 people named Lo-On in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
How common is Lo-On compared with other names?
In Malaysia, Lo-On is the 914th most common surname of 291,743 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Lo-On” — the 914th most common surname in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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