Lama Family History
Lama Name Meaning
Nepali and Indian: Buddhist name from Tibetan blama ‘priest monk’. Spanish Galician Portuguese and Italian: topographic name for someone who lived by a marsh lama (from Latin lama) or a habitational name from any of numerous places called with this word. Albanian: nickname from lamë (definite form lama) a northern variant of lëmë ‘bag under the eyes’. Albanian: from Lamë (definite form Lama) a short form of the Muslim personal name Islam .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022