The Lab surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 411 people carried this name — #50,771 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 714,300 people counted. That is up 5% from 393 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 201 people named Lab.
3 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 17 départements, most often Doubs.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
46 people named Lab live in Switzerland.
They live in 3 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Jura.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
Who carried it
People named Lab,
with a public archive behind them.
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Svatopluk Láb 1920–1998 · Catholic priest
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Yvon Morel-Lab 1938– · writer
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Serge Lab 1940– · politician
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Jean-Claude Lab 1942– · politician
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Christophe Lab 1951– · architect
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Mireille Lab 1955– · politician
Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Lab.
- Kwiatek 564 · U.S. census
- Kwiatkowski 6,377 · U.S. census
- Kwiecien 529 · U.S. census
- Ky 1,042 · U.S. census
- La 6,655 · U.S. census
- Laas 299 · U.S. census
- Labadie 1,926 · U.S. census
- Laban 520 · U.S. census
- Labar 1,887 · U.S. census
- Labare 311 · U.S. census
- Labarre 2,078 · U.S. census
- Labas 175 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Lab is.
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