Lamot families are Croats and they are mostly from Krapina area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Krapina area and in Nasice. In Gornji Macelj in Krapina area every seventh inhabitant had the family name Lamot.
Prevalence
About 130 people with faimily name Lamot live in Croatia today, in 40 households. There were 100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 30 percent. They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 8 cities and 14 other places, mostly in Gornji Macelj in Krapina area (30), Zagreb (15), Sesvete (10), Jezovec in Lepoglava area (<10), and in Lila (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.