Lamech
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Uncertain; possibly meaning 'strong man' or 'powerful', though often associated with a root meaning 'to be low' or 'despair' in popular etymology
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/lɑmetʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lamech is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Guyana than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 125K(measured from records)
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.
- Guyana (measured from records)
- Sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 125K (inferred from the name graph)
6 people, 2025
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Uncertain; possibly meaning 'strong man' or 'powerful', though often associated with a root meaning 'to be low' or 'despair' in popular etymology.
Sources 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lamech 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GY Guyana | 6 | 1 in 125K | 6 | — | — |
| PE Peru | — | — | — | Lamech | 13 |
| US United States | — | — | 5 | Lamech | 14 |
| BR Brazil | — | — | — | Lamech | 12 |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Lamech | 6 |
| MX Mexico | — | — | — | Lamech | 9 |
| CL Chile | — | — | 1 | Lamech | 7 |
6 people counted by Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025, 2025. 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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Lamech 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.
Uncertain; possibly 'powerful', 'strong youth', or 'destroyer'.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
Lamech represents the culmination of the line of Cain, illustrating the progression of human sin, arrogance, and violence before the Flood. His polygamy and disproportionate vengeance contrast with the divine order and the godly line of Seth.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
Lamech represents the hope for redemption and rest (comfort) amidst the consequences of the Fall, serving as the link between the antediluvian patriarchs and the post-Flood world through his son Noah.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In English, Either of two antediluvians.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, biblical patriarch
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)
- Lamech Ambetsab. 2000KEKenyan rugby sevens player
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)
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)
Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 6 | #588 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1998 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1978 | 5 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1953 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1938 | 1 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Lamech mean, and where does it come from?
- Uncertain; possibly meaning 'strong man' or 'powerful', though often associated with a root meaning 'to be low' or 'despair' in popular etymology. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- How do you pronounce Lamech?
- A machine transcription gives /lɑmetʃ/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- Is Lamech a male or female name?
- Lamech is a male 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 Lamech have the most bearers?
- In Guyana, the national register counted about 6 people named Lamech, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lamech most common?
- Lamech is densest in Guyana, where the national register counts about 1 in 125 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lamech?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 6 people named Lamech in 2025, about 1 in 125 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lamechThe 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, “Lamech”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.