Lhama
org · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Lhama is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country. In Ecuador it is the 29th most common surname. Lhama is also written ลามา in Thai.
- ECEcuador1 in 369as Lema(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 914as Lema
- TZTanzania≈1 in 1.2Kfew recordsas Lema
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 Lhama 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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 195 (measured from records)
- 1 in 369 (inferred from the name graph)
≈58,000 named Lema, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ecuador, as Lema
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Lhama in other scripts: Latin and Thai
(measured from records)Locally spelled Lema in EC Ecuador, AR Argentina, US United States and 2 more and Lama in IN India.
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.
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Lhama is found
(measured from records)Lhama 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | #649 | ≈58,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 1 | Lema | 20 |
| EC Ecuador | #29 | 45,808as Lema | 1 in 369 | 46K | Lema | 56 |
| IN India | — | 29,966as Lama | 1 in 44K | 30K | Lama | 33 |
| US United States | — | 19,109as Lima | 1 in 17K | 21K | Lema | 195 |
| AR Argentina | #830 | 15,169as Lima | 1 in 3K | 15K | Lema | 91 |
| UY Uruguay | #137 | 3,706as Lema | 1 in 914 | 3.7K | Lema | 50 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,280as Lima | 1 in 4.3K | 1.3K | — | 2 |
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: INEC — civil registry names; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Lhama?
- Mondonomo estimates about 58 thousand people named Lema in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Ecuador, India, United States and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Lhama most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Lhama itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Ecuador's: the national register counts about 1 in 369 people named Lema.
- How common is the name Lhama?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 45,808 people named Lema in 2024, about 1 in 369 residents.
- How common is Lhama compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Lhama is the 649th most common surname of 112,969 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lhama?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lhamaThe 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, “Lhama” — ranked 12th in Tanzania (INEC Special Gazette 2021). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.