Lota
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lota is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Australia. Recorded meaning: burbot.
- AUAustralia
- USUnited States
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.
- Australia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 117 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
burbot
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lota counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AU Australia | — | 1 | Lota | 14 |
| US United States | — | 328 | Lota | 117 |
| HR Croatia | — | 787 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | 172 | — | — |
| IN India | — | 127 | — | 11 |
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: DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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)
Lota 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.
portable drinking cup
as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
In English, A spherical pot, specifically a water pot used for washing and ablution, typically made of brass.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, tinea versicolor (a skin condition causing discoloured patches)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, round (stage or set of events in a game or competition)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hawaiian, Lot (biblical character)
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)
- Jean Lotab. 1890FRFrench official (1890–1971)
- Lota de Macedo Soaresb. 1910BRBrazilian architect and urban planner
- Lota Aschermannováb. 1911PLHolocaust victim (born 1911)
- Dennis Lotab. 1973ZMZambian football player (1973-2014)
- Charles Lotab. 1978ZMZambian association football player
- Jana Lotab. 1983CZCzech pop-rock singer
- Lota Chukwub. 1989NGNigerian actress and model
- Maria Lota Kaulb. 2000EEEstonian tennis player (born 2000)
- Grzegorz LotaPLPolish chemist, researcher
- Katarzyna LotaPLPolish researcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 55 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 793 | #4,750 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 328 | #65,358 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 267 | #68,782 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 247 | #77,522 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 127 | #24,248 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Lota mean, and where does it come from?
- burbot Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Lota have the most bearers?
- Lota is most frequently recorded in Australia, where it is most often spelled lota.
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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lotaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Lota”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.