Lajos
Fewer than a hundred men in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met one. The name is Germanic at root and means "famous warrior".
Lajos Pronunciation
Lajos is pronounced LAH-yos (/ˈlajɔs/).
What Lajos means
Where Lajos comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Lajos is the Hungarian form of the name that Germanic speakers built from hlūd, "famous", and wīg, "war". Put together, the parts mean famous warrior, sławny w walce in Polish. The same root gave German Ludwig and French Louis, so Lajos shares a bloodline with Ludwik.
A Polish reader has met this name before, under a Polish spelling. Lajos I of Hungary sat on the Polish throne from 1370 to 1382, where the chronicles call him Ludwik Węgierski. His daughter Jadwiga followed him to Kraków. The Germanic sense of fame in battle travelled with the crown, even as the spelling changed at the border.
On a class register in Poland, Lajos reads as a guest from across the Carpathians. Say it and you hear the Hungarian ending, the -os that Ludwik never had. The warrior sense lives in the old roots, and nowhere newer. Strip the name back and you reach hlūd and wīg, famous and war.
How many people are named Lajos
1 in 232024 men in Poland is named Lajos. 92 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3640 among male names.
Lajos as a middle name
Lajos is a first name for 92 men in Poland and a middle name for another 10, a 90/10 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3129th, between Kürşat (10) and Lakmal (10).
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#3127 Kolawole10
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#3128 Kürşat10
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#3129 Lajos10
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#3130 Lakmal10
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#3131 Lauri10