Lord
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) landlord or lord of the manor; (ii) servant in a lord’s household; (iii) person who plays the part of a lord; (iv) nickname for someone with aristocratic airs; (v) translation of Irish Gaelic O Ti
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/lɔɹd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lord is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 5.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 6.9K
- CACanada≈1 in 8.3K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 467 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
23,405 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Grenada
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
(i) landlord or lord of the manor; (ii) servant in a lord’s household; (iii) person who plays the part of a lord; (iv) nickname for someone with aristocratic airs; (v) translation of Irish Gaelic O Tighearnaigh and Mac Thighearnaín.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lord 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 | — | 23,405 | 1 in 14K | 23K | Lord | 467 |
| GB United Kingdom | #535 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Lord | 267 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Lord | 32 |
| CA Canada | #1000 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | 3 | Lord | 184 |
| AU Australia | #666 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | Lord | 173 |
| IE Ireland | #619 | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | Lord | 48 |
| JM Jamaica | #282 | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | — | Lord | 12 |
| GY Guyana | — | 214 | 1 in 3.5K | 214 | — | 5 |
| GD Grenada | — | 52 | 1 in 2.2K | 52 | — | 2 |
23,405 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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. 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)
Lord is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from OE hlāford ‘lord, master’, often a nickname or lord’s servant; first attested William le Lauerd 1198 P (Suffolk)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, English name adopted as a translation of the main element of Gaelic 6 Tighearnaigh (see Tierney) and Mac Thighearnain (see McKiernan).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, nickname from Old French Ford ‘the dirty one’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, Possibly an altered spelling of Laur. SiiailHSGSThe French name is particularly associated with Acadia in Canada, around 1760.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, The master of the servants of a household; (historical) the master of a feudal manor
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)
- William Paine Lordb. 1838USAmerican politician (1838-1911)
- Mary Dimmick Harrisonb. 1858USnot in their usual namesecond wife of the 23rd United States president Benjamin Harrison (1858–1948)
- Del Lordb. 1894CACanadian film director (1894-1970)
- Robert Lordb. 1900USScreenwriter, film producer (1900-1976)
- Marjorie Lordb. 1918USactress from the United States (1918–2015)
- Jack Lordb. 1920USAmerican actor (1920-1998)
- Jon Lordb. 1941GBEnglish composer, pianist, and Hammond organ player (1941–2012)
- Peter Lordb. 1953GBBritish animator
- Phil Lordb. 1975USfilm and television director
- Quinn Lordb. 1999CACanadian actor (born 1999)
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 50 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 23K | #1,535 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 23K | #1,399 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 22K | #1,560 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 214 | #412 |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 52 | #171 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- What does the name Lord mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) landlord or lord of the manor; (ii) servant in a lord’s household; (iii) person who plays the part of a lord; (iv) nickname for someone with aristocratic airs; (v) translation of Irish Gaelic O Ti… Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Lord?
- A machine transcription gives /lɔɹd/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Lord?
- In the etymology graph, Laird and Sieur are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Lord have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 23 thousand people named Lord, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lord.
- Where is Lord most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lord is densest in Grenada — about 1 in 2.2 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lord?
- In the United States, the national register counted 23,405 people named Lord in 2010, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Lord compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Lord is the 282nd most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lordThe 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, “Lord” — the 282nd most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.