Làmia
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Làmia is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Greek Λαμία (Lamía).
- SESweden1 in 38K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 59K
- SISlovenia1 in 105K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 262 (measured from records)
- 1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)
1,821 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lamia in US United States, ES Spain, NL Netherlands.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Greek Λαμία (Lamía).
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Nordic Names
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Làmia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,821 | 1 in 183K | 1.8K | Lamia | 31 |
| ES Spain | 730 | 1 in 69K | 730 | Lamia | 9 |
| SE Sweden | 272 | 1 in 38K | 272 | — | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | 117 | 1 in 148K | 117 | Lamia | 4 |
| DK Denmark | 100 | 1 in 59K | 100 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 30 | 1 in 141K | 49 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 20 | 1 in 105K | 22 | — | — |
1,821 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Làmia is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Occitan, shark
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Làmia mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Greek Λαμία (Lamía). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- Is Làmia a male or female name?
- Làmia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Làmia have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Làmia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lamia.
- Where is Làmia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Làmia is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 38 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Làmia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,821 people named Làmia in 2020, about 1 in 183 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%A0miaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Làmia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.