Lamai
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Lamai is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country.
- ATAustria≈1 in 520K(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway≈1 in 720K
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 760K
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 Lamai 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.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 82 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 518K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 named ละมัย, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)14 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled ละมัย in TH Thailand.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lamai 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | #497 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | register #554,309 | ละมัย | 82 |
| US United States | — | 1,821as Lamia | 1 in 183K | 1.8K | Lamai | 36 |
| ES Spain | — | 730as Lamia | 1 in 69K | 730 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 382as Lanai | 1 in 554K | 439 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 272as Lamia | 1 in 38K | 272 | Lamai | 9 |
| DK Denmark | — | 100as Lamia | 1 in 59K | 100 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 20as Lamia | 1 in 105K | 22 | — | — |
| AT Austria | — | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 518K | 63 | — | — |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Lamai is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In se, third-person singular past indicative of lapmat
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, first-person singular past historic of lamer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Malay, sibling-in-law
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 116 | #49,963 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 55 | #12,830 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 44 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 44 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 43 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 43 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 43 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 43 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 42 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 42 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 41 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 37 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Lamai a male or female name?
- Lamai is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Norway (SSB).
- In which country does Lamai have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named ละมัย in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Lamai?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,821 people named Lamia in 2020, about 1 in 183 thousand residents.
- How common is Lamai compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Lamai is the 497th most common given name of 488,147 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lamai?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lamaiThe 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, “Lamai” — the 497th most common given name in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.