# Lamy (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/lamy/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,486 |
| US rank (2010) | 18,561 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 207,770 people |
| Change since 2000 | +11% (1,334 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Lamy in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 65% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 26% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.0% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.2% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 2.7% |
| Two or more races | 1.5% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Lamy in Belgium, Australia, the United States and France.

## People named Lamy

- Jenny Lamy, Australian sprinter
- Benoît Lamy, Belgian film director, producer and screenwriter (1945–2008)
- James Lamy, bobsledder (1928–1992)
- Claude-Auguste Lamy, 19th-century French chemist
- Thomas Joseph Lamy, Biblical scholar, orientalist. (1827–1907)

## Similar surnames

Lamb, Lam, Lamm, Lama, Lamay, Lamey, Layne, Laney, Lane, Luna, Leon, Lin.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.