Lamya
Lamya was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,702 among girls’ names; 2,046 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,030 Americans named Lamya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 13 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lamya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lamya?
#7,702 among girls’ names, 2025
Lamya fell from #2,762 in 2015 to #7,702 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 35.9 to 8.7 per million.
162 babies in 2007, the peak
Lamya peaked in 2007, when 162 girls were given it, #1,452 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,702 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,695 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,065 | 16.2 |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,732 | 17.7 |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,458 | 18.9 |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,318 | 19.8 |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,498 | 18.5 |
| 2018 | 41 | #3,709 | 24.1 |
| 2017 | 55 | #2,995 | 31.9 |
| 2016 | 49 | #3,307 | 27.7 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 64 | #2,762 | 35.9 |
| 2014 | 77 | #2,383 | 43.1 |
| 2013 | 87 | #2,165 | 49.6 |
| 2012 | 99 | #1,978 | 56.2 |
| 2011 | 117 | #1,752 | 66.5 |
| 2010 | 108 | #1,880 | 60.8 |
| 2009 | 138 | #1,628 | 75.1 |
| 2008 | 129 | #1,726 | 68.2 |
| 2007 | 162 | #1,452 | 84.3 |
| 2006 | 119 | #1,751 | 62.6 |
| 2005 | 112 | #1,760 | 60.6 |
| 2004 | 100 | #1,888 | 54.5 |
| 2003 | 92 | #1,977 | 50.4 |
| 2002 | 78 | #2,151 | 43.4 |
| 2001 | 60 | #2,550 | 33.3 |
| 2000 | 61 | #2,492 | 33.6 |
| 1999 | 51 | #2,718 | 28.8 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,256 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,342 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,233 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,198 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,697 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,436 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,340 | 3.2 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,891 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,777 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lamya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lamya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lamya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lamya, and how old are they?
2,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,046 Americans ever recorded as Lamya. The median Lamya alive today is 18 years old; half are between 13 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 1,667 people named Lamya (1,657 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,899 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 47 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,440 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 540 |
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).
Where are babies named Lamya born?
The states with the most babies named Lamya are Illinois, Michigan and Ohio, with 38% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 139 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Michigan | 122 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Ohio | 105 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 73 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| California | 71 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 55 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 49 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 48 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 41 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 33 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Lamya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lamya is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1981 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Lamya with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,051 babies since 1880, Lamya is the most given (29% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 85 babies (16%), 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 Lamya
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 Lamya and names like it
- Compare Lamya and LamiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLamya peaked in 2007.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lamya since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Lamya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Lamya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.