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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Lam

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#13,120

down −3,617 places

2025 births

5

down −3 births

All-time births

554

1% of them in 2025

More common than

84%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1983
27 births
Best rank
#1,988
in 1983
First recorded
1977
#4,415 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1997
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
47 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 198327#1,988Peak
  2. 198422#2,336
  3. 199121#3,065
  4. 198220#2,478
  5. 198519#2,652

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1,988 in 1983 · peak births 27 in 1983

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 88% boys■ 12% girls

554 boys · 76 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Lam has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.