The Lams surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 194 people carried this name — #94,311 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 1,428,600 people counted. That is up 3% from 188 in 2000.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 150 people named Lams live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in West Flanders.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 110 people named Lams.
Those born in France came from 12 départements, most often Nord.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In print
Lams in American newspapers,
1892–1911.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 1,864,159 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Lams,
with a public archive behind them.
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Marianne Lams 1902–1990
Wikidata (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Lams.
- Lamoureux 3,361 · U.S. census
- Lampe 5,290 · U.S. census
- Lampert 3,484 · U.S. census
- Lamperti 133 · U.S. census
- Lample 130 · U.S. census
- Lampson 836 · U.S. census
- Lamy 1,486 · U.S. census
- Lan 3,262 · U.S. census
- Lana 841 · U.S. census
- Lanata 143 · U.S. census
- Lance 13,122 · U.S. census
- Lancelin 149 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Lams is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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