Lamiya
Lamiya was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,807 among girls’ names; 769 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lamiya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lamiya?
#9,807 among girls’ names, 2025
Lamiya fell from #4,262 in 2015 to #9,807 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 19.0 to 6.2 per million.
51 babies in 2011, the peak
Lamiya peaked in 2011, when 51 girls were given it, #3,247 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,807 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,279 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,755 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,244 | 15.2 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,482 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 17 | #6,793 | 10.5 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,304 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,983 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,419 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,898 | 12.4 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | #4,262 | 19.0 |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,608 | 17.4 |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,542 | 25.1 |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,910 | 16.5 |
| 2011 | 51 | #3,247 | 29.0 |
| 2010 | 46 | #3,493 | 25.9 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,325 | 19.1 |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,750 | 22.7 |
| 2007 | 41 | #3,889 | 21.3 |
| 2006 | 40 | #3,827 | 21.0 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,894 | 14.6 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,881 | 14.7 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,474 | 15.9 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,583 | 11.7 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,154 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,820 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,681 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,961 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,341 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,875 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,434 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,658 | 3.4 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,997 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,335 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,180 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lamiya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lamiya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lamiya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lamiya, and how old are they?
An estimated 762 Americans named Lamiya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 11 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 570 people named Lamiya (566 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 678 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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, Lamiya is the fourth most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 85 babies (12%), the fifth 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 Lamiya
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 Lamiya and names like it
- Compare Lamiya and LamyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLamiya peaked in 2011.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lamiya since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Lamiya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Lamiya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.