Lajos
given name · Hungarian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lajos is a given name, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 25th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Louis.
- HUHungary1 in 160◐
- RORomania1 in 26K
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈62K ●
- Sources
- 182 ●
- 1 in 160 ◐
across 12 countries
13K records
Official registry-verified
Hungary
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Lajoš in RS Serbia.
Meaning & origin●
a male given name, equivalent to English Louis
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | #25 | 61,165△ | 8.6K rec. | 1 in 160 | 61K | Lajos | 182 |
| RO Romania | #521 | 1,224 | 268 rec. | — | — | Lajos | 37 |
| SK Slovakia | #469 | 589 | 30 rec. | — | — | Lajos | 41 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 459 | 252 rec. | — | listed | Lajos | 52 |
| SE Sweden | — | 291△ | 35 rec. | 1 in 35K | 291 | Lajos | 20 |
| US United States | — | 244 | 2.7K rec. | 1 in 1.4M | 244 | Lajos | 145 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 128△ | 56 rec. | 1 in 135K | 128 | Lajos | 14 |
| CA Canada | — | 123 | 116 rec. | — | — | Lajos | 32 |
| PL Poland | — | 119 | — | 1 in 322K | 119 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | — | 101△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 42K | 101 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 97 | 51 rec. | — | 3 | Lajos | 22 |
| BE Belgium | — | 91 | 94 rec. | — | — | Lajos | 18 |
Roughly 61K people in Hungary bear this name (about 1 in 160). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hungarian1.1M99%
- English5.2K1%
- German1.8K1%
- Slovak5941%
- French5331%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hungarian | 1,105,244 | 99% |
| English | 5,164 | 1% |
| German | 1,812 | 1% |
| Slovak | 594 | 1% |
| French | 533 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Lajos 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.
Guerrero famoso
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Hungarian form of LOUIS .
as a word
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 233 |
| 2000 | 230 |
| 2001 | 229 |
| 2002 | 220 |
| 2003 | 213 |
| 2004 | 207 |
| 2005 | 207 |
| 2006 | 203 |
| 2007 | 201 |
| 2008 | 207 |
| 2009 | 201 |
| 2010 | 198 |
| 2011 | 195 |
| 2012 | 188 |
| 2013 | 184 |
| 2014 | 187 |
| 2015 | 191 |
| 2016 | 194 |
| 2017 | 195 |
| 2018 | 191 |
| 2019 | 184 |
| 2020 | 175 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Ludwik Węgierskib. 1326HUnot in their usual nameKing of Hungary, Poland and Croatia
- Louis II, King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemiab. 1506HUnot in their usual nameKing of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia (1506–1526)
- Lajos Kossuthb. 1802HUHungarian politician (1802–1894)
- Lajos Batthyányb. 1807HUHungarian politician (1807–1849)
- Lajos Kassákb. 1887HUHungarian artist, poet, writer, politician (1887-1967)
- Marcel Breuerb. 1902USnot in their usual nameHungarian-American architect (1902-1981)
- John von Neumannb. 1903HUnot in their usual nameHungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
- Cornel Wildeb. 1912USnot in their usual nameHungarian-American actor and film director
- Lajos Tichyb. 1935HUHungarian footballer (1935-1999)
- Lajos Koltaib. 1946HU(1946–) Hungarian cinematographer and director
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●
Attested in 44 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025) | 2025 | 61K | #22 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 291 | #3,998 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 244 | #33,126 |
| HU Hungary | magyarnevek — given names by decade | 1997 | 208 | #58 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 175 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 128 | #3,815 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 119 | #1,839 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 117 | #4,765 |
| HU Hungary | Nyilvántartó — Top-100 newborn names (2020–2024) | 2020 | 98 | #93 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 93 | #28,948 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 93 | #28,848 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 92 | #2,040 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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 2026-09-12 data build · 122 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Lajos?
- We estimate roughly 62 thousand people bear Lajos (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Lajos have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 61 thousand people bear Lajos in Hungary, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled lajos.
- Where is Lajos most common?
- Lajos is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 160 people carrying it.
- How common is Lajos compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Lajos is the 25th most common given name of 18,750 given names recorded there.
- Is Lajos a male or female name?
- Lajos is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Lajos mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Louis
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Lajos” — the 25th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.