Slag
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Waste material from a mine
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: CBG Familienamenbank, 2007
/slɑx/(machine-generated) Dutch · model-generated
Slag is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- NLNetherlands
- USUnited States
- 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)blow
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Slag is read
(measured from records)Slag is one spelling over 2 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.
- English71%
Waste material from a mine.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Dutch12%
blow
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
a blow, knock, strike
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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:
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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Slag is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Icelandic, A beat, stroke, blow (an act of hitting, beating, striking).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, hose, tube (a flexible tube conveying water or other fluid)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, a blow, a strike, a punch.
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 295 | #7,008 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 9 | #15,766 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6 | #154,812 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #222,679 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Slag come from?
- blow Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Dutch.
- What are other forms of the name Slag?
- In the etymology graph, Schlacke is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Slag?
- In Dutch /slɑx/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Slag mean?
- In English, Waste material from a mine.
- In which country does Slag have the most bearers?
- Slag is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Slag?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/slagThe 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, “Slag”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.