Lāme
surname · Latin script
Lāme is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Possibly French L’Ame, a nickname from a variant of I’aime ‘the loved one’, from the past participle of aimer ‘to love’.
- UYUruguay1 in 85K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 765K
- ESSpain1 in 769K
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
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 85K (inferred from the name graph)
435 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)Possibly French L’Ame, a nickname from a variant of I’aime ‘the loved one’, from the past participle of aimer ‘to love’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lāme 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 | 435 | 1 in 765K | 689 | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 76 | 1 in 2.8M | 76 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 65 | 1 in 769K | 65 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 40 | 1 in 85K | 40 | — | — |
| LV Latvia | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 228K | — | Lāme | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 5 | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | — |
435 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 Lāme mean, and where does it come from?
- Possibly French L’Ame, a nickname from a variant of I’aime ‘the loved one’, from the past participle of aimer ‘to love’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Lāme have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 435 people named Lāme, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lāme most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lāme is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 85 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lāme?
- In the United States, the national register counted 435 people named Lāme in 2010, about 1 in 765 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C4%81meThe 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, “Lāme”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.