These names come from Unicode.org and I can confirm the error is with the
Unicode files,
ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt
$ grep LAMDA UnicodeData.txt
039B;GREEK CAPITAL LETTER LAMDA;Lu;0;L;N;GREEK CAPITAL LETTER LAMBDA;;;03BB;
03BB;GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA;Ll;0;L;N;GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMBDA;;039B;;039B
1D27;GREEK LETTER SMALL CAPITAL LAMDA;Ll;0;L;N;
1038D;UGARITIC LETTER LAMDA;Lo;0;L;N;
1D6B2;MATHEMATICAL BOLD CAPITAL LAMDA;Lu;0;L; 039BN;
1D6CC;MATHEMATICAL BOLD SMALL LAMDA;Ll;0;L; 03BBN;
1D6EC;MATHEMATICAL ITALIC CAPITAL LAMDA;Lu;0;L; 039BN;
1D706;MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL LAMDA;Ll;0;L; 03BBN;
1D726;MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC CAPITAL LAMDA;Lu;0;L; 039BN;
1D740;MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC SMALL LAMDA;Ll;0;L; 03BBN;
1D760;MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD CAPITAL LAMDA;Lu;0;L; 039BN;
1D77A;MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD SMALL LAMDA;Ll;0;L; 03BBN;
1D79A;MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD ITALIC CAPITAL LAMDA;Lu;0;L;
039BN;
1D7B4;MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD ITALIC SMALL LAMDA;Ll;0;L;
03BBN;
$ grep LAMBDA UnicodeData.txt
019B;LATIN SMALL LETTER LAMBDA WITH STROKE;Ll;0;L;N;LATIN SMALL LETTER
BARRED LAMBDA
039B;GREEK CAPITAL LETTER LAMDA;Lu;0;L;N;GREEK CAPITAL LETTER LAMBDA;;;03BB;
03BB;GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA;Ll;0;L;N;GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMBDA;;039B;;039B
My understanding is that the correct form is LAMDA.
I believe that in either Unicode 1.x or 2.x, they made a mistake and put
LAMBDA. However, being a standard they could not fix the typo in the older
codepoint descriptions.
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