Laß
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Nicolaus; also from Lars/Laurentius; or from nd
Laß is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 56Kas Lass(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 216Kas Lass
- EEEstonia≈1 in 5.6Kas Lass
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Laß itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 229 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.6K (inferred from the name graph)
1,537 named Lass, 2010
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est., as Lass
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Lass in US United States, DE Germany, PL Poland and 2 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(measured from records)
from Nicolaus; also from Lars/Laurentius; or from nd. lat 'lazy'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Laß 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 | 1,537as Lass | 1 in 216K | 1.5K | Lass | 229 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Lass | 91 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 341K | — | Lass | 16 |
| PL Poland | 426as Lass | 1 in 90K | 218 | Lass | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 307as Lass | 1 in 690K | 307 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | listed | Lass | 14 |
| DK Denmark | 92as Lass | 1 in 64K | 92 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 77as Lass | 1 in 72K | 77 | — | 1 |
1,537 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Laß 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 German, alternative spelling of lass
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Wahrscheinlich Übername zu mnd. las 'Lachs' für Fischer/Fischhändler; teils auch zu 'müde, matt' oder zu Lars (< Laurentius).
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, zu skand. Lars < Laurentius; 571 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
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)
- Heiko Laßb. 1968DEGerman art historian
- Katharina Laßb. 1983DEGerman singer
- Laura Laßb. 1984DEGerman actress
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 1 sources across 0 countries.
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
- Where does the name Laß come from?
- from Nicolaus; also from Lars/Laurentius; or from nd. lat 'lazy' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What are other forms of the name Laß?
- In the etymology graph, Lass is a form of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Laß mean?
- Recorded meaning: from Nicolaus; also from Lars/Laurentius; or from nd.
- In which country does Laß have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Lass, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Laß?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,537 people named Lass in 2010, about 1 in 216 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/la%C3%9FThe 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, “Laß”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.