A famous bearer is American basketball player LaMont "ShowBoat" Robinson (1961-).
― Anonymous User 8/16/2024
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A Scottish surname from Old Norse. It makes me a little sad that African Americans pull on the ancestry of their colonizers for inspiration when there is such a wealth of name inspiration to be found in West Central Africa (where most slaves were taken from) Abiola or Ikenna for example would be far more fitting and empowering than Lamont or DeShawn.
― Anonymous User 7/19/2022, edited 7/19/2022
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Lamont Marcell Jacobs is an Italian-American athlete. He competed in Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games as a member of the Italian athletics team, winning for Italy in the 4x100m relay. It seems strange to me that no one has mentioned him after the great impression he made on Italian athletics after Tokyo 2020.
My father's middle name (and as well as his maternal uncle's middle name and maternal grandfather's middle name) is LaMont. In doing family research I have also seen it spelled "Lamonte".
My surname is VERY similar to this.My impression of it is that it's kind of like McKenna. It sounds very nice and refined as a surname, but trashy as a first name.