Given name & surname
Lagos
Lagos is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in French.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Ancient Greek Λᾶγος, built from Ancient Greek λᾱός + ἀγός.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Lagos’s family of names
In French usage, Lagos has a conventional equivalent in the English form LAGUS. In French usage, Lagos was borrowed from the Ancient Greek form Λᾶγος. In Greek usage, Lagos as a surname is a transliteration of Λαγός.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 4
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Lagos
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