Lash
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Origin uncertain. 1. Possibly a shortened form of Scottish or Irish McLeish
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/læʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lash is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 50K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 66K
- ALAlbania≈1 in 16K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 370 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈64,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Albania, est.
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)
Origin uncertain. 1. Possibly a shortened form of Scottish or Irish McLeish. 2. Americanized spelling of German Lasch or Lasch.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lash 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈64,000 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Lash | 5 |
| US United States | 6,712 | 1 in 50K | 6.9K | Lash | 370 |
| EG Egypt | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Lash | 12 |
| IN India | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | 1 | Lash | 34 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Lash | 69 |
| AL Albania | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 13 | — | — |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Lash | 44 |
| IE Ireland | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Lash | 12 |
| SG Singapore | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Lash | 7 |
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; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)
Lash is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, ndéwé, téwé, lewé
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
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)
- Israel G. Lashb. 1810USAmerican politician (1810-1878)
- Zebulon Aiton Lashb. 1846CACanadian lawyer, civil servant and businessman
- Joseph P. Lashb. 1909USAmerican political activist (1909-1987)
- Don Lashb. 1912USAmerican athlete and politician (1912–1994)
- Ephraimb. 1930GBnot in their usual nameBritish translator (1930-2016)
- Nicholas Lashb. 1934GBBritish theologian
- Jennifer Lashb. 1938GBBritish artist and writer (1938–1993)
- Scott Lashb. 1945USBritish sociologist (born 1945)
- Batton Lashb. 1953USAmerican comics creator
- Dominic Lashb. 1980GBBritish musician
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 23 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.9K | #4,734 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.7K | #5,206 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.4K | #5,243 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 12 | #15,672 |
| 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
- Where does the name Lash come from?
- Origin uncertain. 1. Possibly a shortened form of Scottish or Irish McLeish. 2. Americanized spelling of German Lasch or Lasch. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lash?
- A machine transcription gives /læʃ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Lash mean?
- Recorded meaning: Origin uncertain. 1. Possibly a shortened form of Scottish or Irish McLeish.
- In which country does Lash have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 64 thousand people named Lash in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lash.
- How common is the name Lash?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,712 people named Lash in 2010, about 1 in 50 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lashThe 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, “Lash”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.