Lamant
surname · Latin script
Meaning: present participle of lamer
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lamant is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 56K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 84K
- ESSpain≈1 in 1.6M
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 166 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 56K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
present participle of lamer
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lamant 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 56K | 189 | Lamant | 166 |
| BE Belgium | 140 | 1 in 84K | 140 | Lamant | 19 |
| ES Spain | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Lamant | 1 |
| US United States | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 17M | — | Lamant | 12 |
| AR Argentina | 14 | 1 in 3.2M | 14 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Lamant 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 crs, mint
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)
- Pierre Lamantb. 1926FRFrench scholar
- Jean-Claude Lamantb. 1942FRFrench politician
- Jean-Louis Lamantb. 1942FRFrench politician
- Sophie Lamantb. 1966FRFrench politician
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 201 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 189 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 189 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 179 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 179 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 149 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 146 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 144 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 142 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 140 | #11,700 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 113 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 83 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Lamant mean, and where does it come from?
- present participle of lamer Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Lamant have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Lamant in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lamant.
- How common is the name Lamant?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 140 people named Lamant in 2008, about 1 in 84 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Lamant?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lamantThe 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, “Lamant”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.