Laier
surname · Latin script
Meaning: topographic name for someone who lived in a wood, from an agent noun derived from lai ‘wood’ (see Laich)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ləiɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Laier is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 28K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 696K
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 29 (measured from records)
- 1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
304 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
topographic name for someone who lived in a wood, from an agent noun derived from lai ‘wood’ (see Laich).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Laier 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 304 | 1 in 696K | 304 | Laier | 29 |
| US United States | 242 | 1 in 1.4M | 256 | Laier | 8 |
| DK Denmark | 206 | 1 in 28K | 206 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 7 | 1 in 1.5M | 7 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | 1 |
304 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Laier is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, from a reduced form of the personal name Hilaire, Latin Hilarius (see Hillary).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Anton Laierb. 1883DKDanish priest, sculptor and painter
- Günter Laierb. 1961DEGerman amateur wrestler
- Stephanie Laierb. 1985DEGerman motorcycle racer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 304 | #26,108 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 256 | #80,054 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 244 | #73,931 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 242 | #78,821 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 206 | #2,427 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 7 | #98,535 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Laier mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name for someone who lived in a wood, from an agent noun derived from lai ‘wood’ (see Laich). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Laier?
- A machine transcription gives /ləiɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Laier have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 304 people named Laier, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled laier.
- Where is Laier most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Laier is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 28 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Laier?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 304 people named Laier, about 1 in 696 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/laierThe 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, “Laier”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.