The Lobo surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 3,325 people carried this name — #9,039 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 81,300 people counted.
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In Switzerland’s population statistics
237 people named Lobo live in Switzerland.
They live in 15 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
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 105 people named Lobo.
Most of them — 58 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 21 départements, most often Pas-de-Calais.
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 print
Lobo in American newspapers,
1826–1961.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 61,850 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Lobo,
with a public archive behind them.
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Alonso Lobo 1555–1617 · composer -
Gabriel Lobo Lasso de la Vega 1555–1615 · writer -
Duarte Lobo 1565–1646 · composer -
Eugenio Gerardo Lobo 1679–1750 · writer -
Vicente Lobo Arjona y Marqués 1758–1836 · librarian
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 217 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Lobo.
- Lo 14,534 · U.S. census
- Lobato 3,132 · U.S. census
- Lobbestael 171 · U.S. census
- Lobe 409 · U.S. census
- Lobel 931 · U.S. census
- Lobert 203 · U.S. census
- Lobstein 143 · U.S. census
- Locatelli 504 · U.S. census
- Locati 209 · U.S. census
- Loch 2,368 · U.S. census
- Lochard 279 · U.S. census
- Loche 240 · U.S. census
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