# Lasse (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/lasse/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 6 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 6 | 11,472 |

## People named Lasse

- Lasse Schöne, Danish footballer
- Lasse Virén, Finnish long-distance runner
- Lasse Norman Leth, Danish road cyclist
- Lasse Svan Hansen, Danish handball player
- Lasse Vibe, Danish association football player
- Lasse Andersson, Danish handball player
- Lasse Vigen Christensen, Danish footballer
- Lasse Kukkonen, Finnish ice hockey player
- Lasse Sobiech, German football player
- Lasse Nielsen, Danish footballer
- Lasse Boesen, Danish handball player
- Lasse Pöysti, Finnish actor, director, screenwriter and theatre manager (1927–2019)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.