Lâma
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lâma is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).
- ESSpain1 in 18K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 26K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 34K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 169 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
29,966 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lama in ES Spain, US United States, DO Dominican Republic.
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
(measured from records)From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).
Cited for this meaning 8
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lâma 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 29,966 | 1 in 44K | 30K | — | 30 |
| US United States | — | 2,958 | 1 in 112K | 4.5K | Lama | 169 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,731 | 1 in 18K | 2.7K | Lama | 108 |
| BR Brazil | — | 768 | 1 in 276K | 768 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | — | 471 | 1 in 81K | 333 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 249 | 1 in 34K | 249 | — | 6 |
| DK Denmark | — | 228 | 1 in 26K | 228 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 156 | 1 in 35K | 208 | — | 5 |
| FI Finland | — | 147 | 1 in 38K | 147 | — | 2 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #584 | — | — | — | Lama | 39 |
29,966 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lâma mean, and where does it come from?
- From Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 6 other sources.
- Is Lâma a male or female name?
- Lâma 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 Lâma have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 30 thousand people named Lâma, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lâma most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lâma is densest in Spain — about 1 in 18 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lâma?
- In India, the national register counted 29,966 people named Lâma, about 1 in 44 thousand residents.
- How common is Lâma compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Lâma is the 584th most common surname of 26,844 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%A2maThe 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, “Lâma” — the 584th most common surname in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.