Loda
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/lədə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Loda is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kosovo than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 109K(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 5.9M
- XKKosovo≈1 in 1.3Kas Fazlija
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Loda itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Kosovo (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 119 (measured from records)
- 1 in 109K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 named Fazlija, est.
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Fazlija in CH Switzerland, DE Germany, XK Kosovo.
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)
Plg. liet. Ladd (žr.), Iėdyti „lodinti, loti; pjudyti, siundyti šunimis“ (LKŽ VII
Sources 1
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Loda 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| XK Kosovo | #998 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 110 | Fazlija | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 542as Fazlija | 1 in 16K | 542 | Fazlija | 20 |
| PL Poland | — | 350 | 1 in 109K | 186 | — | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 324K | — | Fazlija | 42 |
| IN India | — | 223 | 1 in 5.9M | 223 | Loda | 8 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 84as Fazlija | 1 in 25K | 84 | — | 4 |
| FI Finland | — | 42as Fazlija | 1 in 133K | 42 | — | 1 |
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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Loda is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, sound (measure depth of water by means of a weighted line)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, alternative form of lode (“praise”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, genitive/accusative singular of lód
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dsb, chest (large strong box)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vep, to create, to make
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Lithuanian, Plg. liet. Ladd (žr.), Iėdyti „lodinti, loti; pjudyti, siundyti šunimis“ (LKŽ VII
as a wordVanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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)
- Alessandro Lodab. 1401author (15th century)
- Francesco Lodab. 1936ITItalian politician and lawyer (1936-1997)
- Natale Lodab. 1957ITjurist (1957-)
- Nicola Lodab. 1971ITroad bicycle racer
- Stéphane Lodab. 1973FRFrench politician
- Sara Lodab. 1990ITItalian volleyball player
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 27 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 405 | #8,379 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 223 | #16,471 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 186 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 186 | #17,332 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 164 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 164 | #19,730 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 28 | #28,759 |
Reference works 7
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Loda?
- A machine transcription gives /lədə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Loda have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Fazlija in Kosovo, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Loda most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Loda is densest in Poland — about 1 in 109 thousand people — even though Kosovo holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Loda?
- In Poland, the national register counted 350 people named Loda in 2026, about 1 in 109 thousand residents.
- How common is Loda compared with other names?
- In Kosovo, Loda is the 998th most common surname of 4,329 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Loda?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lodaThe 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, “Loda” — the 998th most common surname in Kosovo. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.