Entry № 5720 · Arabic origin

Lamia Lamia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Radiant"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "radiant".

Lamia is a name of Arabic origin, meaning radiant, with beautiful dark lips.

Radiant — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

Lamia
Transliteration
Lamia
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Lamia stands.

Lamia does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Lamias before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Lamia.

The number behind Lamia.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lamia reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.