Lamár
surname · Latin script
Lamár is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From a placename in Normandy, which was derived from Old French la mare (“the pool”).
- PKPakistan≈1 in 3.8Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- GHGhana≈1 in 7.3Kfew records
- IEIreland≈1 in 15Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lamár itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 447 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈66,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Pakistan, 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 Lamar in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada 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)From a placename in Normandy, which was derived from Old French la mare (“the pool”).
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lamár 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Lamar | 2 |
| US United States | #580 | 21,069 | 1 in 16K | 20K | Lamar | 447 |
| GH Ghana | #228 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Lamar | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 29K | listed | Lamar | 97 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 1 | Lamar | 63 |
| SE Sweden | — | 947as Rama | 1 in 11K | 947 | — | 11 |
| IE Ireland | #445 | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Lamar | 7 |
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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 Lamár mean, and where does it come from?
- From a placename in Normandy, which was derived from Old French la mare (“the pool”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people named Lamár?
- Mondonomo estimates about 66 thousand people named Lamár in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lamar. After it come United States, Ghana, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Lamár?
- In the United States, the national register counted 21,069 people named Lamár in 2020, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Lamár compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Lamár is the 228th most common given name of 14,081 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lam%C3%A1rThe 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, “Lamár” — the 228th most common given name in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.