Lainer
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in German: from leinen 'to lean'; also for a person living by a slope
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ɫeɪnɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lainer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 823K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 2.5M
- BRBrazil1 in 3.3M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- 1 in 823K (inferred from the name graph)
135 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from leinen 'to lean'; also for a person living by a slope
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
How Lainer is read
(measured from records)Lainer 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.
- English55%
OFr lainier, lanier, ‘woolmonger’; first attested Hugo le Layner 1279
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
- German25%
from leinen 'to lean'; also for a person living by a slope
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
- Spanish6.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lainer in Spanish.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Lainer 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 | 135 | 1 in 2.5M | 139 | Lainer | 25 |
| BR Brazil | 64 | 1 in 3.3M | 64 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 13 | 1 in 823K | 13 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 9 | 1 in 4.3M | 6 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | — | — | Lainer | 7 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | — | 26 | Lainer | 7 |
135 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Leo Lainerb. 1960ATAustrian association football player
- Günther Lainerb. 1969ATAustrian cabaret artist
- Stefan Lainerb. 1992ATAustrian association football player
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 139 | #116,123 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 135 | #126,765 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 130 | #134,631 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 64 | #87,998 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 13 | #68,959 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 10 | #5,575 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #182,139 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #271,454 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Lainer mean, and where does it come from?
- from leinen 'to lean'; also for a person living by a slope Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Lainer?
- A machine transcription gives /ɫeɪnɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lainer have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 135 people named Lainer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lainer.
- Where is Lainer most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lainer is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 823 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lainer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 135 people named Lainer in 2010, about 1 in 2.5 million 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/lainerThe 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, “Lainer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.