Lamija
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lamija is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bosnia & Herzegovina than in any other country.
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 538(inferred from the name graph)
- SISlovenia1 in 9.4K
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 11K
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 Lamija 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.
- Bosnia & Herzegovina (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 538 (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,100 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bosnia & Herzegovina, est.
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 AZ Azerbaijan.
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.
Sources 1
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lamija 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #264 | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 538 | 107 | Lamija | 24 |
| US United States | — | 1,821as Lamia | 1 in 183K | 1.8K | Lamija | 25 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Lamia | 3 |
| ES Spain | — | 730as Lamia | 1 in 69K | 730 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 272as Lamia | 1 in 38K | 272 | Lamija | 11 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 223 | 1 in 9.4K | 241 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | — | 100as Lamia | 1 in 59K | 100 | — | — |
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); the ba-fzs-newborn-names register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population 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)
Lamija is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, grieķu mitoloģijā - briesmone, kādreizējā Zeva iemīļotā, kurai Hēra nogalināja visus bērnus; viņa sāka citām mātēm zagt bērnus, ko tāpēc ar viņas vārdu biedēja
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, pilsēta Grieķijā ("Λαμία"), Centrālās Grieķijas perifērijas administratīvais centrs, 74700 iedzīvotāju (2011. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Vampīri, kas skaistuļu veidā pievilināja jaunavas un jaunekļus un tiem izsūca asinis
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Lamija Tanovićb. 1947BABosnian physicist
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 26 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 241 | #909 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 223 | #463 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 195 | #488 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2023 | 180 | #502 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2022 | 167 | #512 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2021 | 150 | #535 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 139 | #6,819 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | FZS — 100 najčešćih imena (Top-100 Newborn Names, Federation of BiH) | 2021 | 135 | #9 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | FZS — 100 najčešćih imena (Top-100 Newborn Names, Federation of BiH) | 2022 | 132 | #11 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2020 | 123 | #594 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | FZS — 100 najčešćih imena (Top-100 Newborn Names, Federation of BiH) | 2023 | 119 | #11 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 118 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Is Lamija a male or female name?
- Lamija 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 Lamija have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.1 thousand people named Lamija in Bosnia & Herzegovina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lamija.
- How common is the name Lamija?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 223 people named Lamija in 2025, about 1 in 9.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Lamija compared with other names?
- In Bosnia & Herzegovina, Lamija is the 264th most common given name of 4,559 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lamija?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lamijaThe 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, “Lamija” — the 264th most common given name in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.