Lamïa

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Lamïa is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Greek Λαμία (Lamía).

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 38K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 59K
  • ESSpain1 in 69K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

1,821 people, 2020

Record sources
262 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lamia in US United States, ES Spain, NL Netherlands.

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)

Borrowed from Greek Λαμία (Lamía).

Cited for this meaning 4

Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Lamïa 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.

Where Lamïa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,8211 in 183K1.8KLamia31
ES Spain7301 in 69K730Lamia9
SE Sweden2721 in 38K272—3
NL Netherlands1171 in 148K117Lamia4
DK Denmark1001 in 59K100——
HR Croatia301 in 141K49——
SI Slovenia201 in 105K22——

1,821 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Lamïa is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic given name94 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Egypt, Russia, Syria

    Languages: Arabic, English, Russian

    Also written Lamia, Ламия, Lamiya, Lamía, Ламиа

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Lamïa under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Lamïa mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Greek Λαμία (Lamía). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
Is Lamïa a male or female name?
Lamïa is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Lamïa have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Lamïa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lamia.
Where is Lamïa most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lamïa is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 38 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Lamïa?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,821 people named Lamïa in 2020, about 1 in 183 thousand residents.

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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, “Lamïa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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