Laza
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from Laza, a town in Galicia, in northwest Spain
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/lasa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Laza is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 55K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 76K
- USUnited States1 in 738K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 100 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Laža in CZ Czechia.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from Laza, a town in Galicia, in northwest Spain.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Laza 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Laza | 26 |
| RO Romania | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Laza | 24 |
| ES Spain | 661 | 1 in 76K | 661 | Laza | 80 |
| US United States | 451 | 1 in 738K | 462 | Laza | 100 |
| CO Colombia | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 116K | — | Laza | 34 |
| CZ Czechia | 136 | 1 in 79K | 136 | Laža | 9 |
| UY Uruguay | 69 | 1 in 49K | 69 | Laza | 11 |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); MVČR — living population register 2017; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Laza 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 Swahili, to put to bed, to lay down
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, loose, lax, slack
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, kill
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)
- Veronica Lazarb. 1938ITnot in their usual nameItalian actress (1938-2014)
- Liviu Laza-Matiuțab. 1964RORomanian politician
- José Herminio LazaARArgentinian paleontologist
- Mariana LazaRORomanian politician from Sâmbăta, Bihor County
- Cristian LazaRORomanian politician from Sânmartin, Bihor County
- Ionel-Alin LazaRORomanian politician from Pietroasa, Bihor County
- Ruxandra LazaRORomanian researcher
- Vasile Laza-StancaROresearcher
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 29 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 661 | #6,372 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 661 | #6,368 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 462 | #49,237 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 451 | #47,107 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 418 | #47,654 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 69 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #233,721 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 1 | #26,587 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Laza mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from Laza, a town in Galicia, in northwest Spain. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Laza?
- A machine transcription gives /lasa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Laza have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Laza in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled laza.
- How common is the name Laza?
- In Spain, the national register counted 661 people named Laza, about 1 in 76 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/lazaThe 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, “Laza”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.