Lab

org · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Lab is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Japan. Recorded meaning: perhaps a habitational name for someone from Labe in Bohemia or Laabe in Bavaria, both named with German Lab ‘rennet’.

rarermore common
  • JPJapan
  • TZTanzania
  • UGUganda

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Japan (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
47 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

LabLatin(measured from records)
লয়াবBengali(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)

perhaps a habitational name for someone from Labe in Bohemia or Laabe in Bavaria, both named with German Lab ‘rennet’.

Sources 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lab counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Lab is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
JP Japan——Lab15
UG Uganda——Lab1
VN Vietnam——Lab16
TZ Tanzania——Lab1
US United States—416—47

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 2020. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Lab is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Canada, Peru

    Languages: Spanish, French

    Also written Lab', Lāb, Lãb, Ląb

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Láb

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

194019601980Serge Lab, b. 1940Jean-Claude Lab, b. 1942Christophe Lab, b. 1951Mireille Lab, b. 1955Michel Lab, b. 1958Lydie Lab, b. 1978

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 14 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Lab
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020416#53,634
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010411#50,771
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000393#50,055
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 Lab mean, and where does it come from?
perhaps a habitational name for someone from Labe in Bohemia or Laabe in Bavaria, both named with German Lab ‘rennet’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
In which country does Lab have the most bearers?
Lab is most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is most often spelled lab.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lab

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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, “Lab”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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