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Lamia

#8,635 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Lamia has been given to 1,390 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #8,635 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 50 recorded.

Babies named Lamia, 2025

1 in 276,000

Lamia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lamia: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Arabic

What Lamia means

Lamia has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Lamia

One of the source’s documented entries for Lamia records a meaning of shining, radiant.

One of the source’s documented entries for Lamia records a proposed meaning of throat.

Origin, language, and formation

Lamia is used in French. Its origins include Arabic.

Lamia comes through Arabic لَمْيَاء.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Lamia is pronounced /la.mja/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,390 girls were recorded with the name Lamia between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 50 in 2004; its best national rank was #3,097 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,609 in 2020 to #8,635 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,193 in 2015 to #8,635 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Lamia?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,635
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lamia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lamia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lamias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lamia was born before 2004 — so the typical Lamia is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
30.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,390
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Choose a decade

2000s — 30.0% of all recorded uses (417).

Is Lamia rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,533
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,026
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,442
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.34×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
24.0%
Peak was 2004 (50)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,097
2000

Spellings of Lamia

Lamia is not the most common spelling — Laura is, with 21.5% against Lamia's 0.04%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Lamia is used

Across 1910–2025, Lamia was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 572,872 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Missouri1 in —
  7. 7Ohio1 in —
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Lamia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lamia around the world

Where Lamia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    1961–2025
    #1,194
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2003–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lamia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,635
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,026
Best rank ever
#3,097
2000
Peak year
2004
50 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,390
Count in 2025
12

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Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Lamia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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