Meaning and history
From a French and English surname derived from a place name in Normandy, itself based on Old French la mare meaning “the pool,” Lamar became well used in the African-American community in the second half of the 20th century, likely because of its popular phonetic elements la and mar.
20062006: 340 births, rank #671
2007: 339 births, rank #695
2008: 308 births, rank #740
2009: 293 births, rank #777
2010: 333 births, rank #701
20112011: 315 births, rank #722
2012: 289 births, rank #784
2013: 327 births, rank #717
2014: 268 births, rank #843
2015: 277 births, rank #817
20162016: 230 births, rank #923
2017: 234 births, rank #910
2018: 201 births, rank #1,023
2019: 194 births, rank #1,054
2020: 182 births, rank #1,086
20212021: 148 births, rank #1,280
2022: 144 births, rank #1,308
2023: 136 births, rank #1,369
2024: 120 births, rank #1,494
20252025: 115 births, rank #1,514
Lamar rose from #926 to #915 for boys between 2016 and 2017. Its highest annual birth count came in 1989, with 737 births.