Laskar

surname · Latin script

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

/ɫæskɑː/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Laskar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 23K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 307Kas Lasker
  • BDBangladesh≈1 in 23K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Laskar itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (measured from records)

56,659 people

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
133 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)

Bangladesh, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

LaskarLatin(measured from records)
লস্করBengali(measured from records)
ЛаскарCyrillic(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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Laskar 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.

Where Laskar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#24456,6591 in 23K57KLaskar133
BD Bangladesh#360≈7,100 est.≈1 in 23K—Laskar35
ID Indonesia—≈1,200 est.≈1 in 217K—Laskar41
US United States—1,084as Lasker1 in 307K1.3KLaskar102
SA Saudi Arabia—≈620 est.≈1 in 55K—Laskar10
AE United Arab Emirates—≈300 est.≈1 in 33K—Laskar16
KW Kuwait—≈130 est.≈1 in 24K—Laskar8

56,659 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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)

Laskar is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Laškar

  • Portuguese surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Argentina, United States, Colombia

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Láskar

  • English surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, India, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, Chinese, German

    Also written Lasker, Läsker

26 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Laskar is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Indonesian, soldier, army

    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)

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)

Formalआदरणीय श्री Laskar जी,Respected Laskar ji, (English)
Informalनमस्ते Laskar जी,Hi Laskar, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 21 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Laskar
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—100K#15
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—57K#282
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020260#79,118
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010182#99,378
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000140#115,489
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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

How do you pronounce Laskar?
A machine transcription gives /ɫæskɑː/ (IPA) for Hindi.
In which country does Laskar have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 57 thousand people named Laskar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled laskar.
How common is the name Laskar?
In India, the national register counted 56,659 people named Laskar, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
How common is Laskar compared with other names?
In India, Laskar is the 244th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Laskar” — the 244th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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