Entry № 5736 · Arabic origin

Lamiya Lamiya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ lah-MEE-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Shining"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "shining".

Lamiya is from the Arabic Lāmiya.

Shining — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

لامية
Transliteration
Lāmiya
Pronunciation
/ lɑːˈmiː.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lamiya stands.

Lamiya 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.

Lamiyas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Lāmīyat al-Arab / Al-Shanfara
Arabic shining luminous + lam to shine + Lāmīyat al-Arab pre-Islamic poem by Al-Shanfara 6th c. CE + Mufaddaliyat anthology + Arab desert-poetic
Arabic poetry

Names connected to Lamiya.

The number behind Lamiya.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lamiya reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.