Lamping

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

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 word·kaikki.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 name·Deutscher 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

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

• Russian surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Russia

  Also written Лампинг

31 further groups 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.

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 name·Dictionary 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.

• 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).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

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.