Lužar
surname · Latin script
Lužar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: topographic name for a person who lived near a pool, from luza ‘pool’, ‘puddle’ + the suffix -ar denoting an inhabitant.
- SISlovenia1 in 4.3K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 51K
- PLPoland1 in 85K
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.
- Slovenia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
487 people
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Luzar in SI Slovenia, US United States, HR Croatia.
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)
topographic name for a person who lived near a pool, from luza ‘pool’, ‘puddle’ + the suffix -ar denoting an inhabitant.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lužar 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.
487 people counted by stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank), counting the spelling lužar. 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: stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Aprilija Lužarb. 1963SISlovene artist
- Marjana Lužarb. 1972SISlovenian athletics competitor
- Barbara Lužarb. 1979SIresearcher
- Borut LužarSIresearcher
- Sanja LužarSIresearcher
- Marijana Fortuna LužarSIresearcher
- Magda LužarSIresearcher
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 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 487 | #621 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 15 | #26,762 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 10 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Lužar mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name for a person who lived near a pool, from luza ‘pool’, ‘puddle’ + the suffix -ar denoting an inhabitant. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Lužar have the most bearers?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted about 487 people named Lužar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled luzar.
- Where is Lužar most common?
- Lužar is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lužar?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 487 people named Lužar, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Lužar compared with other names?
- In Slovenia, Lužar is the 354th most common surname of 13,062 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lu%C5%BEarThe 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, “Lužar” — the 354th most common surname in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.