Lami
surname · Latin script
Meaning: tarmac (bituminous road surface)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/lami/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lami is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Iraq than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 50K(inferred from the name graph)
- ALAlbania≈1 in 2K
- IQIraq≈1 in 7.4K
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.
- Iraq (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 148 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Albania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
tarmac (bituminous road surface)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lami 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IQ Iraq | #393 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Lami | 27 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Lami | 51 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 34K | listed | Lami | 32 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 224 | — | 2 |
| AL Albania | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 38 | — | — |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Lami | 19 |
| AR Argentina | — | 823 | 1 in 55K | 823 | — | 2 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)
Lami is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, hab. de Lama, na forma pl.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Swahili, born on Thursday
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Italian, Variante di Lama
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In tut-pro, convenient, helpful
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Hausa, a female given name given to a girl born on a Thursday
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Giovanni Lamib. 1697ITItalian jurist, historian, and antiquarian (1697-1770)
- Ernest Lami de Nozanb. 1795FRdirector of telegraphs Chappe, painter, miniaturist, French glass painter (1795–1881)
- Eugène Lamib. 1800FRFrench painter (1800-1890)
- Alphonse Lamib. 1822FRFrench sculptor and Egyptologist (1822–1867)
- Stanislas Lamib. 1858FRFrench sculptor and art historian (1858–1944)
- Edgardo Lami Starnutib. 1887ITItalian politician (1887–1968)
- Basilio Lami Dozob. 1929ARArgentine military person (1929-2017)
- Lucio Lamib. 1936ITItalian writer and journalist (1936–2013)
- Alessandro Lamib. 1949ITItalian classical philologist and hellenist (1949-2015)
- Mitì Vigliero Lamib. 1957ITItalian writer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 40 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 823 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 263 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 242 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 224 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 219 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 203 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 177 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 163 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 142 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 114 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 90 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 84 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lami mean, and where does it come from?
- tarmac (bituminous road surface) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Lami?
- A machine transcription gives /lami/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Lami have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.3 thousand people named Lami in Iraq, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lami.
- How common is the name Lami?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 823 people named Lami, about 1 in 55 thousand residents.
- How common is Lami compared with other names?
- In Iraq, Lami is the 393rd most common surname of 30,136 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lami?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lamiThe 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, “Lami” — the 393rd most common surname in Iraq. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.