# Lamine (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/lamine/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Arabic |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 314 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 314 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 38, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 11 | 7,301 |
| 2012 | 8 | 9,364 |
| 2013 | 10 | 7,866 |
| 2014 | 12 | 6,897 |
| 2015 | 12 | 6,914 |
| 2016 | 12 | 6,967 |
| 2017 | 12 | 6,936 |
| 2018 | 7 | 10,288 |
| 2019 | 9 | 8,598 |
| 2020 | 8 | 9,211 |
| 2021 | 6 | 11,563 |
| 2022 | 15 | 6,027 |
| 2023 | 16 | 5,818 |
| 2024 | 16 | 5,800 |
| 2025 | 21 | 4,802 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 4 | 3,687 |
| 2009 | 4 | 3,744 |
| 2010 | 3 | 4,678 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4,685 |
| 2017 | 3 | 4,812 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,001 |
| 2024 | 6 | 3,254 |
| 2025 | 11 | 2,133 |

## In other languages

- French: Lamine
- Spanish: Lamine

## People named Lamine

- Lamine Sakho, French and Senegalese footballer
- Lamine Traoré, Burkinabe footballer
- Lamine Ouahab, Algerian tennis player
- Lamine Fomba, French-Malian association football player
- Lamine Abid, Algerian footballer
- Lamine Guèye, French and Senegalese politician (1891–1968)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.