Entry № 5738 · Arabic origin

Lamya Lamya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LAHM-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Dark-lipped (pre-Islamic poetic beauty)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Arabic)

A name that means "dark-lipped (pre-islamic poetic beauty)".

Lamya is from the Arabic لمياء (Lamyāʾ — dark-lipped, having dark inner lip) — from Arabic lamā (dark color of lips). Lamya is one of the Arabic feminine names — central to traditional Muslim heritage. Arabic feminine name reflecting pre-Islamic poetic heritage.

Dark-lipped (pre-Islamic poetic beauty) — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

لمياء
Transliteration
Lamyāʾ
Pronunciation
/ ˈlɑːm.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lamya stands.

Lamya 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.

Lamyas before her.

Real people
Lamya Kaddor
German-Syrian Islamic feminist scholar + Bundestag Member 2021-present + pioneering Liberal Islam in Germany.
Contemporary
In fiction
Lamya
Arabic dark-lipped + classical Arabic + pre-Islamic poetic beauty-ideal heritage.

Names connected to Lamya.

The number behind Lamya.

7

The Seeker

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