Lavia
surname · Spanish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lavia is a surname, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: composto de la e Via.
- ARArgentina1 in 40K◐
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 162
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 27K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.3K ●
- Sources
- 57 ●
- 1 in 162 ◐
across 11 countries
6.2K records
Official registry-verified
St. Vincent & Grenadines
Meaning & origin●
composto de la e Via
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 2 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | 1,147 | 5.3K rec. | 1 in 40K | 1.1K | Lavia | 51 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 626 | — | 1 in 162 | 626 | — | — |
| US United States | 230 | 228 rec. | 1 in 1.4M | 251 | Lavia | 57 |
| ES Spain | 115 | 379 rec. | 1 in 435K | 115 | Lavia | 33 |
| FI Finland | 101△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 55K | 101 | — | 1 |
| MX Mexico | 73 | 87 rec. | — | — | Lavia | 21 |
| IT Italy | 52 | 49 rec. | — | listed | Lavia | 16 |
| UY Uruguay | 45 | 45 rec. | — | — | Lavia | 3 |
| PE Peru | 24 | 35 rec. | — | — | Lavia | 8 |
| PH Philippines | 20 | 19 rec. | — | — | Lavia | 7 |
| CL Chile | 17 | 5 rec. | — | — | Lavia | 11 |
| BE Belgium | 16△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 733K | 16 | — | 5 |
Roughly 1.1K people in Argentina bear this name (about 1 in 40K). 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●
- Spanish9.5K63%
- English3.2K21%
- English (St. Vincent & Grenadines)6134%
- Portuguese2822%
- Finnish1701%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish | 9,482 | 63% |
| English | 3,217 | 21% |
| English (St. Vincent & Grenadines) | 613 | 4% |
| Portuguese | 282 | 2% |
| Finnish | 170 | 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●
Lavia 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 Finnish, a former municipality of Satakunta, Finland, merged with Pori in 2015.
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1980 | 22 |
| 1990 | 43 |
| 2000 | 88 |
| 2010 | 245 |
| 2020 | 559 |
| 2022 | 706 |
BR IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) — 6 years between 1980–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Giuseppe Laviab. 1884ITItalian politician
- Gabriele Laviab. 1942ITItalian actor, film director and theatre director
- Lorenzo Laviab. 1972ITItalian actor
- Elisa Laviab. 1979ITassociation football player
- Antonio Laviab. 1994ITvolleyball player
- Lorenzo Laviab. 1997ITvolleyball player
- Daniele Laviab. 1999ITItalian volleyball player
- Patrizia Laviab. 2000ITresearcher
- Roméo Laviab. 2004BEBelgian 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●
Attested in 32 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 706 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 702 | #10,522 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 626 | #22 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 559 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 314 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 251 | #81,311 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 245 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 241 | #74,675 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 230 | #82,044 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 172 | #41,551 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 163 | #16,153 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 84 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Lavia?
- We estimate roughly 2.3 thousand people bear Lavia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Lavia have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.1 thousand people bear Lavia in Argentina, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled lavia.
- Where is Lavia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lavia is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 162 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name Lavia mean?
- Recorded meaning: composto de la e Via
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lavia”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.