Lamont is a Scottish surname that goes back to the Old Norse Lögmaðr, meaning "law man" or "lawyer"; Clan Lamont is an old family of Argyll. As a first name it became popular in African American families in the 1960s and 1970s and was familiar from Lamont Sanford on the sitcom Sanford and Son. Lamont was still in the top 1000 at number 778 in 2000 but has since declined to number 2739 in 2025.