Lazar

Lazar is the 5,427th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,208 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 48,100.

By the numbers

People: 6,208
Rank: 5,427th
How common: 1 in 48,100
Per 100,000: 2.1

Where the name comes from

From Middle English, from lazare (“leper”), from Old French lazare, from Latin lazarus, from Lazarus, from Ancient Greek Λάζαρος, from Hebrew אלעזר.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Lazar described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 91.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.9%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Lazar

Bob Lazar (born 1959)American businessman and ufologist
György Lázár (1924–2014)Hungarian politician
Gyula Lázár (1911–1983)Hungarian footballer
Reka Zsofia Lazăr-Szabo (born 1967)Romanian fencer
Costin Lazăr (born 1981)Romanian footballer
Elisabeta Lazăr (born 1950)Romanian rower
Curtis Lazar (born 1995)Canadian ice hockey player
Pál Lázár (born 1988)association football player

People named Lazar with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Lazar

Also a first name

Lazar has been given to 811 American babies as a first name since 1931, peaking in 2012. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.