Lamon
Masculine · “lawman”
Lamon can be an American prefixed coinage or a clipped Scottish surname, and the surname is the more interesting of the two. Lamont comes from an Old Norse word for a lawyer, which reached the Hebrides with Norse settlement and became a clan name, so a Scottish highland family carries a job title in a language none of them spoke.
How old is the name Lamon?
Lamon first appears in US birth records in 1909 — 116 years ago. The typical Lamon alive today was born around 1974, making them about 51 years old. About 1,100 people named Lamon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lamon most popular?
Lamon peaked in 1911, reaching #1290 nationally. See the whole 1911 chart.
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Where it comes from
From A Norse word for the man who knew the law to Lamon
The story of Lamon
Norse settlement in the Hebrides left a layer of vocabulary and names that Gaelic absorbed completely, to the point where clan names of Norse origin are carried by families who have been Gaelic-speaking for eight hundred years. This is one: a Norse word for the man who knew and recited the law, which in Scandinavian society was a specific and important office, became a personal name and then a surname in the west of Scotland. The clan held Cowal, lost most of it in a seventeenth-century massacre by a neighboring clan, and scattered. The word underneath is the same one that gives Iceland's parliament its speaker's title, which is still in use, and which is one of the oldest continuously held offices in Europe.
Meaningscholars disagree
lawman
If the source is the Scottish surname, the derivation is from a Norse compound meaning a man of the law, and it is well documented. If the source is an American prefixed formation, there is no meaning at all. Both routes were available and the spelling records neither, so the honest answer sets out the two and declines to choose.
How the name formed
- A Norse word for the man who knew the law
- Carried into the Hebrides with Norse settlement
- A Scottish clan name in Cowal
- Lamon as an American first name, or a prefixed coinage
Related forms: MacLaomainn
Pronouncing Lamon
luh-MON
Two syllables with the stress at the back and the first reduced almost to nothing. Some American families put the stress on the front instead, giving LAY-mun, and the two readings correspond roughly to the two possible origins.
Nicknames for Lamon
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1909
- Most boys named
- 197436 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1290reached in 1911
- Change vs 2018
- −28.6%5 in 2021, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Lamon in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- MacLaomainn in Scottish Gaelic — related form
Lamons among us
people named Lamon are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Lamon sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The sound is straightforward and needs no coaching.
- It has a genuine Scottish surname behind it on one of its two routes.
- Monty and Lem are two very different short forms and neither is crowded.
- The stress is unsettled and the two readings suggest two different origins.
- It will be written Lamont or Lemon by people taking it from speech.
- There is no meaning on the American route, only on the Scottish one.
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- How many Lamons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Lamon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Lamon in 2025?
- Lamon is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
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- Lamon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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