I-Am
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
I-Am is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 2Kas Law(inferred from the name graph)
- THThailand≈1 in 18Kas เอี่ยม
- USUnited States1 in 60Kas Lam
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 I-Am itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 482 (measured from records)
- 1 in 156K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,600 named Law, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Lam in HK Hong Kong, MY Malaysia, SG Singapore, Law in US United States and ลำ 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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
I-Am 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Lam | 111 |
| US United States | 5,542as Lam | 1 in 60K | 60K | Law | 482 |
| TH Thailand | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 18K | #559,660 | ลำ | 100 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Lam | 130 |
| BR Brazil | 1,359 | 1 in 156K | 1.8K | — | 3 |
| SG Singapore | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Lam | 115 |
| FI Finland | 94as Lam | 1 in 59K | 419 | — | 14 |
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 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
I-Am is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, contraction of îi am
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is I-Am a male or female name?
- I-Am is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does I-Am have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.6 thousand people named Law in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is I-Am most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, I-Am is densest in Brazil — about 1 in 156 thousand people — even though Malaysia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name I-Am?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,359 people named I-Am in 2022, about 1 in 156 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about I-Am?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/i-amThe 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, “I-Am”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.