Lam-In
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lam-In is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Gambia than in any other country, where it is the most common given name. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Notts. see Lammin .
- ESSpain1 in 48K(measured from records)
- GMGambia≈1 in 49
- SLSierra Leone≈1 in 1.7K
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.
- Gambia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 157 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 49 (inferred from the name graph)
≈44,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Gambia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Lamin in ES Spain, DZ Algeria, SE Sweden 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)
Main GB Location (1881): Notts. see Lammin .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lam-In 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GM Gambia | #1 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 49 | 14 | Lamin | 81 |
| DZ Algeria | #556 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 10K | listed | Lamin | 16 |
| SL Sierra Leone | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 29 | — | 15 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 116K | — | Lamin | 18 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,052 | 1 in 48K | 1.1K | Lamin | 38 |
| SE Sweden | — | 577 | 1 in 18K | 577 | Lamin | 26 |
| LY Libya | #815 | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Lamin | 21 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IEC — Nominated Candidates National Assembly Elections 2022; NEC/ECSL — 2018 Local Council, Chairperson and Mayor nominated candidates. 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 Lam-In mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Notts. see Lammin . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- In which country does Lam-In have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 44 thousand people named Lam-In in the Gambia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lamin.
- How common is the name Lam-In?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,052 people named Lam-In, about 1 in 48 thousand residents.
- How common is Lam-In compared with other names?
- In the Gambia, Lam-In is the most common given name of 163 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lam-In?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lam-inThe 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, “Lam-In” — the most common given name in Gambia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.