Given name & surname
Lamech
“one who is strong and powerful”
Lamech is used as a given name and a surname. One Hebrew interpretation is “one who is strong and powerful.”
Original Hebrewלמך
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hebrew interpretation is “one who is strong and powerful.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hebrew.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1978. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Lamech appears in Genesis 4:18, Luke 3:36.
- Genesis 4:18
- Luke 3:36
From biblical name research
Lamech through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 16
- 16 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1998
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2007. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 1998.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Lamech’s family of names
In Polish usage, Lamech has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form LAMEC. Lamech has a related form in Lameche. Lamech has a related form in Lameck.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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