Lamine
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lamine is a given name, most frequently recorded in Senegal, where it is the 21st most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Spanish, written in the Latin script.
- SNSenegal1 in 221◐
- DZAlgeria1 in 19K
- ESSpain1 in 28K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈4.9K ●
- Sources
- 237 ●
- 1 in 28K ◐
across 10 countries
35K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SN Senegal | #21 | 3,047 | 1.6K rec. | — | 68 | Lamine | 60 |
| FR France | — | 2,335 | 24K rec. | 1 in 29K | 2.3K | Lamine | 237 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,779△ | 782 rec. | 1 in 28K | 1.8K | Lamine | 45 |
| DZ Algeria | #344 | 1,274 | 1.5K rec. | — | listed | Lamine | 40 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | #632 | 809 | 885 rec. | — | 1.2K | Lamine | 28 |
| IT Italy | — | 608 | 711 rec. | — | 5 | Lamine | 30 |
| US United States | — | 507 | 1.9K rec. | 1 in 656K | 507 | Lamine | 124 |
| BE Belgium | — | 483 | 633 rec. | — | 117 | Lamine | 32 |
| ML Mali | #31 | 439 | 445 rec. | — | 12 | Lamine | 33 |
| BF Burkina Faso | #169 | 180 | 182 rec. | — | — | Lamine | 14 |
| SE Sweden | — | 102△ | 43 rec. | 1 in 100K | 102 | — | 10 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 50 | 51 rec. | 1 in 346K | 60 | — | 12 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French39K59%
- Spanish7.4K11%
- Arabic4.3K7%
- English3.5K5%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)3.2K5%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 39,456 | 59% |
| Spanish | 7,413 | 11% |
| Arabic | 4,319 | 7% |
| English | 3,479 | 5% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 3,247 | 5% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Lamine is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, inflection of laminar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1980 | 5 |
| 1998 | 8 |
| 1999 | 12 |
| 2000 | 5 |
| 2001 | 6 |
| 2002 | 8 |
| 2003 | 15 |
| 2004 | 8 |
| 2005 | 12 |
| 2006 | 14 |
| 2007 | 10 |
| 2008 | 12 |
| 2009 | 14 |
| 2010 | 10 |
| 2011 | 11 |
| 2012 | 8 |
| 2013 | 10 |
| 2014 | 12 |
| 2015 | 12 |
| 2016 | 12 |
| 2017 | 12 |
| 2018 | 7 |
| 2019 | 9 |
| 2020 | 8 |
| 2021 | 6 |
| 2022 | 15 |
| 2023 | 16 |
| 2024 | 16 |
| 2025 | 21 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 29 years between 1980–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Muhammad VIII al-Aminb. 1881TNnot in their usual nameBey of Tunis (1943-1957)
- Lamine Diackb. 1933SNSenegalese sports manager (1933–2021)
- Ali Lamine Zeineb. 1965NENigerien politician
- Lamine Diattab. 1975SNSenegalese and French footballer
- Lamine Diarrab. 1983SNSenegalese footballer
- Mohamed Sissokob. 1985FRnot in their usual nameMalian-French footballer (born 1985)
- Lamine Konéb. 1989FRIvorian footballer
- Lamine Gassamab. 1989FRSenegalese and French footballer
- Lamine Fombab. 1998FRFrench-Malian association football player
- Lamine Camarab. 2004SNSenegalese footballer (born 2004)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 58 sources across 35 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 152 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Lamine?
- We estimate roughly 4.9 thousand people bear Lamine (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Lamine have the most bearers?
- Lamine is most frequently recorded in Senegal, where it is most often spelled lamine.
- How common is Lamine compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Lamine is the 21st most common given name of 3,508 given names recorded there.
- Is Lamine a male or female name?
- Lamine is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lamine” — the 21st most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.