Lokaj
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Czech: lackey
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ləkəʒ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lokaj is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- CZCzechia
- PLPoland
- DEGermany
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)footman, valet
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Lokaj is read
(measured from records)Lokaj is one spelling over 6 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Czech34%
lackey
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English24%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lokaj in English.
- German18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lokaj in German.
- Polish12%
footman, valet
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Albanian8.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lokaj in Albanian.
- French7.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lokaj in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
- USUnited States
- DEGermany
- PLPoland
- FRFrance
- CZCzechia
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)- Jindřich Lokajb. 1939CZCzech immunologist
- Antonín Lokajb. 1961CZresearcher
- Petr Lokajb. 2000CZCzech oncologist
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 415 | #3,172 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 327 | #5,019 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 326 | #4,183 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 173 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 130 | #11,970 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 56 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 56 | #46,546 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 48 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 48 | #51,244 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 45 | #13,861 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 14 | #59,099 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 12 | #29,264 |
Reference works 3
- 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)
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 Lokaj come from?
- footman, valet Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Lokaj?
- A machine transcription gives /ləkəʒ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Lokaj mean?
- In Czech, lackey
- In which country does Lokaj have the most bearers?
- Lokaj is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Lokaj?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lokajThe 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, “Lokaj”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.