Lamiyah
Lamiyah was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,701 among girls’ names; 892 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lamiyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lamiyah?
#7,701 among girls’ names, 2025
Lamiyah fell from #3,195 in 2015 to #7,701 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 29.1 to 8.7 per million.
68 babies in 2012, the peak
Lamiyah peaked in 2012, when 68 girls were given it, #2,645 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,701 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,290 | 11.7 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,071 | 12.5 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,853 | 17.1 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,668 | 13.4 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,966 | 22.3 |
| 2019 | 47 | #3,360 | 28.0 |
| 2018 | 40 | #3,764 | 23.5 |
| 2017 | 50 | #3,226 | 29.0 |
| 2016 | 49 | #3,306 | 27.7 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 52 | #3,195 | 29.1 |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,871 | 33.6 |
| 2013 | 59 | #2,886 | 33.6 |
| 2012 | 68 | #2,645 | 38.6 |
| 2011 | 55 | #3,076 | 31.3 |
| 2010 | 48 | #3,386 | 27.0 |
| 2009 | 49 | #3,385 | 26.7 |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,506 | 18.0 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,173 | 19.2 |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,012 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,182 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,109 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,757 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,615 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,530 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,084 | 3.9 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,997 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lamiyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lamiyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lamiyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lamiyah, and how old are they?
An estimated 885 Americans named Lamiyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 532 people named Lamiyah (532 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 757 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30% 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 6,606 babies since 1880, Lamiyah is the third most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 75 babies (19%), the second 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 Lamiyah
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 Lamiyah and names like it
- Compare Lamiyah and LamyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLamiyah peaked in 2012.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lamiyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Lamiyah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lamiyah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.