Final Fantasy used Lamia to refer to a race of snake women starting with Final Fantasy II it appears. It wouldn't be surprising if it was something like that that set in motion the term to be more generally used like it is in anime, manga, and game series to refer to a race of half-women half-snakes.
Naga's alias to Lamia would likely be due to similarity in visuals. The name's origin is apparently with ancient Indian mythology of a race of snake people, and with more modern depictions, like Warcraft, probably reinforcing the half-snake half-human appearance.
If the term Lamia is associated more with half-woman half-snake depictions, we might want to consider flipping the Naga -> Lamia alias. As far as I understand it, Naga seems to be open for either gender (though going by wikipedia "A female nāga is a nāgī or nāgiṇī"). Going with removing the monster_girl implication we could just manually input monster_girl or monster_boy tags.