Lamia
Lamia was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,635 among girls’ names; 1,390 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,370 Americans named Lamia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 13 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lamia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lamia mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Lamia is “a female given name from Arabic”
Borrowed from Arabic لَمْيَاء (lamyāʔ).
/la.mja/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lamia?
#8,635 among girls’ names, 2025
Lamia fell from #4,193 in 2015 to #8,635 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 19.6 to 7.5 per million.
50 babies in 2004, the peak
Lamia peaked in 2004, when 50 girls were given it, #3,102 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,635 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,102 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,479 | 14.3 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,114 | 12.2 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,071 | 12.2 |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,609 | 17.9 |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,116 | 20.9 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,721 | 17.0 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,888 | 22.6 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,204 | 19.8 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 35 | #4,193 | 19.6 |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,150 | 20.2 |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,541 | 25.1 |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,440 | 18.7 |
| 2011 | 48 | #3,386 | 27.3 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,336 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,881 | 16.3 |
| 2008 | 45 | #3,618 | 23.8 |
| 2007 | 45 | #3,632 | 23.4 |
| 2006 | 45 | #3,536 | 23.7 |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,071 | 18.9 |
| 2004 | 50 | #3,102 | 27.2 |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,265 | 24.6 |
| 2002 | 41 | #3,361 | 22.8 |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,667 | 20.0 |
| 2000 | 45 | #3,097 | 24.8 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,674 | 18.6 |
| 1998 | 37 | #3,324 | 20.9 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,499 | 19.0 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,888 | 16.0 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,327 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,314 | 13.4 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,566 | 9.4 |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,726 | 15.7 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,273 | 12.8 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,600 | 11.1 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,685 | 8.1 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,237 | 11.8 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,921 | 12.7 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,635 | 9.9 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,256 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,613 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,016 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,103 | 11.2 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,928 | 12.0 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,720 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,588 | 7.5 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,697 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,075 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,562 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,940 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,970 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,695 | 4.0 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,391 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lamia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lamia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lamia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lamia, and how old are they?
1,370 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,390 Americans ever recorded as Lamia. The median Lamia alive today is 22 years old; half are between 13 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 1,821 people named Lamia (1,814 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,261 born in the U.S. The Census count is 44% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 70 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 308 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 620 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 371 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,051 babies since 1880, Lamia is the second most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 85 babies (14%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lamia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lamia and names like it
- Compare Lamia and LamyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLamia peaked in 2004.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lamia since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Lamia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Lamia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Lamia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.