Laster
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. variant of Lester
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɫæstɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Laster is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 36K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 64K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 92K
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)
- Sources
- 327 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Liberia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Laester in GH Ghana.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
1. variant of Lester. 2. occupational name for a maker of cobblers’ lasts, from Middle English last, lest, the wooden form in the shape of a foot used for making or repairing shoes (Old English laste from last ‘footprint’).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Laster 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 | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Laster | 4 |
| US United States | — | 9,202 | 1 in 36K | 9.2K | Laster | 327 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | Laster | 38 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 147K | — | Laster | 4 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Laester | 10 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Laster | 24 |
| LR Liberia | #275 | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Laster | 1 |
| JO Jordan | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Laster | 1 |
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. 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)
Laster 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, A workman whose business it is to shape boots or shoes, or place leather smoothly, on lasts.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, ‘speed’, ‘race’, TS ‘current (of water or of air)’, ‘quick, fast, speedy’, TS ‘active, hard-working, industrious’, ‘quickly, fast’, ‘soon’
as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
In Dutch, slander, libel (untrue, injurious statement, either written or said)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, indefinite feminine plural of last
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, indefinite plural of last
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)
- Feiwel Lasterb. 1896ATHolocaust victim (born 1896)
- Art Lasterb. 1948USfootball player (born 1948)
- Donald Lasterb. 1958USAmerican football player
- Andy Lasterb. 1961USAmerican musician and clarinetist
- D.J. Lasterb. 1996USAmerican basketball player (born 1996)
- Jon LasterUSbasketball player
- Marcus LasterUSbasketball 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)
Attested in 15 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9.2K | #3,847 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.6K | #4,025 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.5K | #3,824 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Laster come from?
- 1. variant of Lester. 2. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Laster?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫæstɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Laster mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. variant of Lester.
- What are other forms of the name Laster?
- In the etymology graph, Last is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Laster have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Laster in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled laster.
- How common is the name Laster?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,202 people named Laster in 2010, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
- How common is Laster compared with other names?
- In Liberia, Laster is the 275th most common surname of 10,200 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lasterThe 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, “Laster” — the 275th most common surname in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.