Ló
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ló is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 7.3K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 19K
- ESSpain1 in 35K
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)
- Sources
- 182 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.3K (inferred from the name graph)
17,687 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lo in AR Argentina, US United States, ES Spain and 1 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ló 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 | — | 17,687 | 1 in 19K | 19K | Lo | 182 |
| AR Argentina | #647 | 6,259 | 1 in 7.3K | 6.3K | Lo | 91 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,420 | 1 in 35K | 1.4K | Lo | 90 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 301 | 1 in 57K | 301 | — | 16 |
| NO Norway | — | 258 | 1 in 21K | 258 | — | 5 |
| SM San Marino | #158 | — | — | — | Lo | 3 |
17,687 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Ló 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 kix, To set at certain degree, amount of time, price, distance etc.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, pill, bobble (small defect on woollen clothing)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Vietnamese, to appear; to heave; to come into sight
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In egl, he, him (emphatic form)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, dative singular of lá
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, clearing, meadow
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Ló have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 18 thousand people named Ló, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lo.
- Where is Ló most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ló is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 7.3 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ló?
- In the United States, the national register counted 17,687 people named Ló in 2010, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
- How common is Ló compared with other names?
- In San Marino, Ló is the 158th most common surname of 4,503 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ló?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%B3The 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, “Ló” — the 158th most common surname in San Marino. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.