Làmour
surname · Latin script
Làmour is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Haiti it is the 46th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From French Lamour, from L’Amour, from l’+amour (“love”).
- FRFrance≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 292K
- HTHaiti≈1 in 3.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 254 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Haiti, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lamour in FR France, US United States, CM Cameroon and 3 more.
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)- FrenchLamour(measured from records)
- French rootl’+amour“love”(measured from records)
From French Lamour, from L’Amour, from l’+amour (“love”).
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Làmour 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #829 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 743 | Lamour | 254 |
| HT Haiti | #46 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | listed | Lamour | 9 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Lamour | 1 |
| US United States | — | 1,140 | 1 in 292K | 1.5K | Lamour | 158 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Lamour | 2 |
| MU Mauritius | #57 | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Lamour | 4 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Làmour mean, and where does it come from?
- From French Lamour, from L’Amour, from l’+amour (“love”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Làmour have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.6 thousand people named Làmour in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lamour.
- How common is the name Làmour?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,140 people named Làmour in 2010, about 1 in 292 thousand residents.
- How common is Làmour compared with other names?
- In France, Làmour is the 829th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Làmour” — the 829th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.