Lomax
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Person from Lomax’, a lost Lancashire place-name probably meaning ‘nook of land with a pool’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɫoʊˌmæks/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lomax is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 34K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 304K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 646K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
9,789 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
‘Person from Lomax’, a lost Lancashire place-name probably meaning ‘nook of land with a pool’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lomax 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 9,789 | 1 in 34K | 9.8K | Lomax | 15 |
| ES Spain | 49 | 1 in 1M | 49 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 18 | 1 in 304K | 18 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 13 | 1 in 646K | 13 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 10 | 1 in 3.8M | 6 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 8 | 1 in 1.3M | 8 | — | — |
9,789 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Lomax is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Bury in Lancs., recorded in the Middle Ages as Lumhalghs, and apparently named with the OE elements lumm pool (see Lumb) + halh nook, recess (see Hale i). Vars.: Lo(o)nias, Loomis, Lummis, Lummus.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, A former region in Lancashire, England.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, John Avery & his son, Alan, US
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, folklorists
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, variant of Loomis.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Lunsford L. Lomaxb. 1835USConfederate States Army general
- Samuel Lomaxb. 1855GBBritish First World War general killed in action
- John Lomaxb. 1867USAmerican musicologist and folklorist (1867–1948)
- Alan Lomaxb. 1915USAmerican musicologist (1915–2002)
- Eric Lomaxb. 1919GBBritish Army officer
- Bess Lomax Hawesb. 1921USAmerican folk musician and folklorist (1921-2009)
- Louis Lomaxb. 1922USAmerican journalist
- Jackie Lomaxb. 1944GBEnglish recording artist; guitarist and singer-songwriter
- Kelvin Lomaxb. 1986GBBritish footballer (born 1986)
- Dean LomaxGBBritish palaeontologist
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 25 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9.8K | #3,627 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 9.3K | #3,727 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 9.1K | #3,579 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 49 | #45,678 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 49 | #45,014 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 18 | #44,821 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 13 | #50,156 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 8 | #44,808 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #181,083 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #230,811 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Lomax mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Person from Lomax’, a lost Lancashire place-name probably meaning ‘nook of land with a pool’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Lomax?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫoʊˌmæks/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lomax have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 9.8 thousand people named Lomax, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lomax.
- Where is Lomax most common?
- Lomax is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 34 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lomax?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,789 people named Lomax in 2010, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lomaxThe 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, “Lomax”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.