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Meaning & History
Means "my people" or "my nation" from Hebrew לִי (li) "my" and עַם ('am) "people, nation". It is also a modern Hebrew acronym for לא ידע עמי מלחמה which means "my nation did not know war".The Irish name Liam is also quite popular in Israel; the Hebrew script is לִיאַם (with vowels) or ליאם. (The Hebrew script of the former name meaning "my people" is לִיעַם (with vowels) or ליעם.)