Names of Laos LA

The names that most distinguish Laos from the rest of the world are Luis, Diaz and Alejandro; in our record corpus the commonest names held in Laos are Juan and Gonzalez.

Written in Lao.

Population
7.4M
Official registers
2
Name forms recorded
7.3K
BBuilt from 2 official registers, 7,293 name forms in our corpus, 2 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

fewerlarger share
Where the names most characteristic of Laos are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Laos included.

How names work in Laos

Names in Laos follow one naming tradition. Its structure, its given-name and surname stock, how to address someone and what trips software up are set out on its own page.

The most common names in Laos

Characteristic of Laos

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Laos holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

LuisAlejandroCarlosAngelJuanAlejandraJesusPaolaCristianDanielaAdrianaFernandaJorgeManuelValentinaAndreaMiguelMatiasCamilaJavierPabloGabrielFernandoAntonioAnaKevinGabrielaFelipeValeriaClaudiaRodrigoLucasAlbertoMarianaEstebanFranciscoIgnacioLauraMarcelaCamiloSergioJoaquinRocioCarmenVanessaRosaAguilarMedinaRicardoJonathanCristinaLeonardoMateoGonzaloSilviaAxelLuciaKarlaNewGustavo
Sized by how much of the difference between Laos's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Scripts & spelling

Gonzalezsurname●
Rodriguezsurname●
Garciasurname●
Lopezsurname●
Hernandezsurname●
The best-attested names in Laos, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

  • The Louisiana Department of Health released the most popular baby names in Louisiana for babies born in 2025.2025not a population count

    ldh.la.gov. Counts: not recorded. given. 10 forms. 2025. Licence: unknown.

    What we know about this register

    Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. The Louisiana Department of Health released the most popular baby names in Louisiana for babies born in 2025.

    Last verified 2026-05-11.

  • A profile on Laos including demographic and political information published by the U.S. Department of State.2002not a population count

    2009-2017.state.gov. Counts: not recorded. given. 4 forms. 2002. Licence: unknown.

    What we know about this register

    Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. A profile on Laos including demographic and political information published by the U.S. Department of State. NAME-SEARCH SWEEP 2026-08-06: checked the Lao Statistics Bureau (lsb.gov.la, under mpi.gov.la) — standard statistical reports only, no name-search tool. Civil registration (Department of Citizen Management, Ministry of Home Affairs) is still largely paper-based; its pilot Civil Management Information System (CMIS, 3 provinces/31 districts) is an internal system for provincial-to-central data transfer with no public-facing interface. No live per-name existence/frequency oracle found; not re-searched until infrastructure changes.

    Last verified 2026-05-11.

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Laos”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/LA (data snapshot 2026-09-12).