Las

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Liz in PY Paraguay, BR Brazil, CZ Czechia and 6 more, Lucie in FR France, CA Canada, BE Belgium and 1 more, Leeds in GB United Kingdom, US United States and ליז in DK Denmark, IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Las is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name16K records spelled Las26 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written La'S, L'As, Ľăš, Lãs, Lás

• French surname5.0K records spelled Las20 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Senegal, Spain

  Also written L'As, Lãš, Làs, Sazlı, Låš

• a separate name4.0K records spelled Las9 spellings in the group

  Also written Lâs, Laş, Laš, Laś, Lās

• a separate name1.7K records spelled Las14 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Mexico, Cuba, Spain

  Also written Lås, Lăş, Là'S, Lás, Lạ'S

60 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●

Las 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 Kurdish, A hero's name from Kurdish epics, also one as fresh as a sapling

  as a word·kurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary

• In Galician, alternative form of as (“the”, feminine plural)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Portuguese, alternative form of as (third-person feminine plural objective pronoun) used as an enclitic and mesoclitic following a verb form ending in a consonant (-z, -r and -s, but not -m); the consonant is elided and the preceding vowel takes an accent if necessary

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In dum, first/third-person singular past indicative of lēsen

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In csb, forest, woods (dense uncultivated tract of trees)

  as a word·kaikki.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.

Over time●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 19 years between 2002–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Béla Las-Torresb. 1890HUswimmer (1890-1915)
• Nelly Lasb. 2007GBEnglish footballer
• Nicole LasATAustrian 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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 114 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Las?

We estimate roughly 714 thousand people bear Las (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Las have the most bearers?

Las is most frequently recorded in Paraguay, where it is most often spelled liz.

How common is Las compared with other names?

In Paraguay, Las is the 14th most common given name of 19,021 given names recorded there.

What does the name Las mean?

Recorded meaning: especially in Upper Franconian place names; from -leins