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Origin and Meaning of Lam

User Submitted Origins

Vietnamese
67%
Chinese
22%
Indonesian
6%
Luo
6%

User Submitted Meanings

  1. A user from Vietnam says the name Lam is of Vietnamese origin and means "Forest or The first".
  2. According to 3 people from Canada and Vietnam, the name Lam is of Chinese / Vietnamese origin and means "Forest".
  3. A user from Virginia, U.S. says the name Lam is of Indonesian origin and means "Forrest or First".
  4. According to a user from the United Arab Emirates, the name Lam is of Vietnamese origin and means "My name is lam and preferably it means truth and justice which would connect to the name khuong".
  5. A user from South Sudan says the name Lam is of Luo origin and means "Meaning worshipping or prayer in English".
  6. A submission from Canada says the name Lam means "Emerald in the JUngle" and is of Vietnamese origin.
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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
verb Lam
To beat soundly; to thrash.

Etymology: Icel. lemja to beat, or lama to bruise, both fr. lami lama, lame. See Lame

Other Dictionary Sources
  1. A rapid escape (as by criminals) ("after the expose he had to take it on the lam")
    Synonyms: getaway
  2. Give a thrashing to; beat hard
    Synonyms: flail, thrash, and thresh
  3. Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
    Synonyms: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, run, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, and turn tail
Wiktionary

From Middle English lamen, lemen, from Old English lemian and Old Norse lemja; both from Proto-Germanic *lamjaną.

From Arabic لَام‎ (lām), the name of the letter ل‎ (l).

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet, ل‎ (l). It is preceded by ك‎ (k) and followed by م‎ (m).

    lam was also found in the following language(s): Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Hausa, Limilngan, Middle Dutch, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Old English, Old High German, Polish, Swedish, Tok Pisin, Vietnamese, Volapük, Welsh, and Yámana

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    Notable Persons Named Lam

    Notable Persons Named Lam

    Lam Ching Ying

    Lam Ching Ying is an actor. He was most active from 1970 to 1996.

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    Lam Kor-Wan

    Lam was born in 1955 in Hong Kong. Lam is also known as The Jars Murderer, The Rainy Night Butcher, The Rainy Night Killer, and The Hong Kong Butcher.

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    Lam Chi Chung

    He was most active from 1988 to present. Lam was born on August 16th, 1976 in Hong Kong.

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    Lam Suet

    Lam was born on July 8th, 1964 in Tianjin.

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    Lam Akol

    Lam Akol is a Chairman of the SPLM-DC, Minister of Cabinet Affairs of Sudan, Foreign Minister of Sudan, Transport Minister of Sudan, and Chairman of theSPLM-DC. Lam was born on July 15th, 1950 in Athidhwoi, Upper Nile.

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    Lam Jones

    Lam Jones is a football player for the New York Jets. He was most prominent from 1980 to 1984. Lam was born on April 4th, 1958 in Lawton, Oklahoma.

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    Notable Persons With the Last Name Lam

    Notable Persons With the Last Name Lam

    Elisa Lam

    Elisa Lam is a student. Elisa was born on April 30th, 1991.

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    Raymond Lam

    Raymond Lam is a cantopop, rhythm, and blues musician. He holds the title Love is Finding You in Memories". He has had major accomplishments since 1999. Raymond is also known as Lam Yat Fung (林逸峯)，Chok王 and Soft Wind.

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    Sandy Lam

    Sandy Lam is a cantopop and mandopop singing, dance, and actor. She has had major accomplishments since 1984.

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    Wifredo Lam

    Wifredo Lam was an artist. Wifredo was given the name Wifredo Óscar de la Concepción Lam y Castilla on December 8th, 1902 in Sagua La Grande. He passed away on September 11th, 1982.

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    Papillon Soo Lam

    Papillon Soo Lam is a model, actress, and pediatrist.

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    Rosamund Kwan Chi Lam

    Rosamund Kwan Chi Lam is an actor. Her most notable accomplishments were from 1982 to 2004. Rosamund is also known as Gigi (之之) and Thirteenth Aunt".

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    Common last names for Lam

    Common first names for Lam

    Ethnicity Distribution

    Ethnicity Lam U.S.
    █  White 6.84% 64.26%
    █  African American 0.57% 11.96%
    █  Asian, Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander 87.99% 4.85%
    █  American Indian and Alaska Native 0.05% 0.69%
    █  Two or More Ethnicities 1.99% 1.76%
    █  Hispanic or Latino 2.56% 16.26%

    Of Last Name Lam

    People with the last name Lam are most frequently Asian, Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander

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    Fun Facts about the name Lam

  1. What name lists does Lam rank for?
    #611Popular Surnames
  2. How Popular is the name Lam? Lam is the 15,045th most popular name of all time. As a last name Lam was the 611th most popular name in 2010.
  3. How many people with the first name Lam have been born in the United States? From 1880 to 2019, the Social Security Administration has recorded 599 babies born with the first name Lam in the United States. That's more than enough people named Lam to occupy the territory of Pitcairn Islands (United Kingdom) with an estimated population of 66 (as of July 1, 2008).
  4. What year were 5 or more babies first named Lam? The name was first given to 5 or more babies in the year 1977 when it was given as a first name to 8 new born babies.
  5. When was Lam first recorded in the United States? The oldest recorded birth by the Social Security Administration for the first name Lam is Thursday, November 27th, 1873.
  6. What year had the most people named Lam born? The highest recorded use of the first name Lam was in 1983 with a total of 27 babies.
  7. Random Lam Factoid: According to the 1984 U.S. Social Security Administration data, the first name Lam is not a popular baby boy's name in California. Imagine that, only 9 babies in California have the same name in 1984.
  8. Weird things about the name Lam: The name spelled backwards is Mal. A random rearrangement of the letters in the name (anagram) will give Lma. How do you pronounce that?
  9. How many people have the last name Lam? In 2010, the U.S. Census Bureau surveyed 55,554 people with the last name Lam.
  10. How likely are you to meet someone with the last name of Lam? If you manage to meet 100,000 people in your life, chances are that 19 of them will have Lam as their last name.
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