Laos
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic. Capital: Vientiane
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/laos/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Laos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 9.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 8K
- FIFinland1 in 73K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 55 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Laos (a country in Southeast Asia)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Laos is read(measured from records)
Laos is one spelling over 3 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.
- Spanish69%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Laos in Spanish.
- English17%
lang., people, Laos, Thailand
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
republic, Asia
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Laotian [Lao]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic. Capital: Vientiane.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese6.7%
Laos (a country in Southeast Asia)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Laos 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | — | Laos | 55 |
| US United States | 454 | 1 in 733K | 465 | Laos | 52 |
| PH Philippines | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 403K | — | Laos | 6 |
| CO Colombia | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 235K | — | Laos | 23 |
| EE Estonia | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 8K | 6 | — | 3 |
| FI Finland | 76 | 1 in 73K | 76 | — | — |
| CL Chile | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 390K | 1 | Laos | 18 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)
Laos 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 Afrikaans, Laos (a country in Southeast Asia; capital: Vientiane)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Teresa Laosb. 1901PEPeruvian lawyer
- Ester Laosb. 1931EEEstonian writer (1931-2018)
- Ants Laosb. 1943EEEstonian politician, entrepreneur, volleyball player and sportsperson (born 1943)
- Rein Laosb. 1948EEEstonian actor and director (born 1948)
- Teresa Núñezb. 1951PEnot in their usual namePeruvian volleyball player
- Jaan Laosb. 1985EEEstonian rower (born 1985)
- Roland Laosb. 1986EEEstonian actor (born 1986)
- Joosep Laosb. 1992EEEstonian rower (born 1992)
- Flavia Laosb. 1997PEPeruvian singer
- Aino Laosb. 2000GBsinger
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 18 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 465 | #48,977 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 454 | #46,811 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 366 | #53,047 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 76 | #15,870 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Laos come from?
- Laos (a country in Southeast Asia) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Laos?
- A machine transcription gives /laos/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Laos mean?
- In English, A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Lao People’s Democratic Republic. Capital: Vientiane.
- What are other forms of the name Laos?
- In the etymology graph, Lao is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Laos have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Laos in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled laos.
- How common is the name Laos?
- In the United States, the national register counted 454 people named Laos in 2010, about 1 in 733 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/laosThe 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, “Laos”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.