The Lago surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 2,341 people carried this name — #12,202 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 114,900 people counted.
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In Switzerland’s population statistics
197 people named Lago live in Switzerland.
They live in 15 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 177 people named Lago.
81 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 24 départements, most often Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 32 people named Lago live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Liège.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Lago.
- Lage 1,941 · U.S. census
- Lager 1,376 · U.S. census
- Lages 129 · U.S. census
- Lagesse 451 · U.S. census
- Lagier 102 · U.S. census
- Lagneaux 149 · U.S. census
- Lagoda 147 · U.S. census
- Lagon 171 · U.S. census
- Lagorio 293 · U.S. census
- Lagrand 403 · U.S. census
- Lagrange 2,415 · U.S. census
- Lagrave 265 · U.S. census
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