About the name Lamar
Lamar belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Lamar first appears in Social Security records in 1882. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #314 in 1980, and in 2024 117 babies received the name — 33,846 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.