Lậm
surname · Latin script
Meaning: to indulge in, or to get fond of something/someone
Lậm is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 6K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 4.3K
- NONorway1 in 7.6K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 177 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
55,554 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lam in US United States, HK Hong Kong and Lâm in CH Switzerland.
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)
to indulge in, or to get fond of something/someone.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lậm 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 | — | 55,554 | 1 in 6K | 60K | Lam | 177 |
| SE Sweden | — | 743 | 1 in 14K | 743 | — | 12 |
| NO Norway | — | 722 | 1 in 7.6K | 722 | — | 19 |
| DK Denmark | — | 534 | 1 in 11K | 534 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 531 | 1 in 16K | 531 | Lâm | 14 |
| FI Finland | — | 419 | 1 in 13K | 419 | — | 14 |
| GY Guyana | — | 175 | 1 in 4.3K | 175 | — | — |
| HK Hong Kong | #288 | — | — | — | Lam | 48 |
55,554 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 Lậm mean, and where does it come from?
- to indulge in, or to get fond of something/someone. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Lậm have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 56 thousand people named Lậm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lam.
- Where is Lậm most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lậm is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 4.3 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lậm?
- In the United States, the national register counted 55,554 people named Lậm in 2010, about 1 in 6.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Lậm compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Lậm is the 288th most common surname of 8,142 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lậm?
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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%E1%BA%ADmThe 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, “Lậm” — the 288th most common surname in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.