Lamping
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A form of hunting at night, during which bright lights or lamps are used to dazzle the hunted animal or to attract insects for capture
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɫæmpɪŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lamping is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 71K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 268K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 138K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 231 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 71K (inferred from the name graph)
1,243 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
patronymic from the personal name Lampe, a short form of Lampert, a variant of Lambert.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Lamping is read(measured from records)
Lamping is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English76%
A form of hunting at night, during which bright lights or lamps are used to dazzle the hunted animal or to attract insects for capture.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German12%
Patronymischer Familienname aus Kurzform zu Rufnamen mit Land- als erstem Glied, meist Landbert/-brecht; mit patronymischem -ing-Suffix; 434 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lamping 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,243 | 1 in 268K | 1.3K | Lamping | 231 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 71K | listed | Lamping | 76 |
| PH Philippines | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 365K | — | Lamping | 14 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 148K | — | Lamping | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 464K | — | Lamping | 51 |
| NL Netherlands | 100 | 1 in 173K | 100 | Lamping | 10 |
| NI Nicaragua | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 265K | — | Lamping | 7 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 138K | — | Lamping | 1 |
1,243 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the dfa-band-6 register; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Lamping 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.
patronymic from the personal name Lampe, a short form of Lampert, a variant of Lambert.
as a nameDictionary of American Family 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)
- József Lampingb. 1881HUHungarian architect
- Donna Lampingb. 1953CACanadian university teacher
- Dieter Lampingb. 1954DEGerman specialist in literature
- Frank LampingDEPh.D. Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen 2015
- John LampingUSAmerican politician and businessman
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,869 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,119 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,397 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 100 | #18,997 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 6 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Lamping come from?
- patronymic from the personal name Lampe, a short form of Lampert, a variant of Lambert. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lamping?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫæmpɪŋ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Lamping mean?
- In English, A form of hunting at night, during which bright lights or lamps are used to dazzle the hunted animal or to attract insects for capture.
- In which country does Lamping have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Lamping, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lamping.
- How common is the name Lamping?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,243 people named Lamping in 2010, about 1 in 268 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, “Lamping”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.