girls:
345 births since 2001
#5371 (6th percentile)
overall:
345 births since 2001
#7394 (4th percentile)
The name Lamyah is the #7,394 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 345 recorded births since 2001. This represents the 4.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,371 (6.0% percentile) for all time with 345 births since 2001.
Lamyah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2001 (first recorded for girls in 2001).
For girls, Lamyah reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 2.6% percentile (ranked #913) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.6% percentile). Despite a low point in 2017, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Lamyah ranks #941 for girls (0.6% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 42.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lamyah".
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Our model has identified 14 different pronunciations for the name Lamyah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 21.4% confident that Lamyah is pronounced as luh-MAI-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is lah-MAI-uh, at 19.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like L AH0 M AY1 AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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