Lambert (name)

Lambert is an English and French^[1] given name and surname. It is from the Low German form of the anthroponymic name Landberht from the Old High German land "(home) land" and beraht "bright".^[2]

It is one of the most common French surnames with a total number of birth in France between 1966 and 1990 around 18,000 births.^[3] variant forms include: Lamberty, Lambertot, Lamberton.^[4]

Geographical distribution

As of 2014, 36.1% of all known bearers of the surname Lambert were residents of the United States (frequency 1:3,039), 26.4% of France (1:765), 8.5% of England (1:1,983), 7.3% of Canada (1:1,533), 4.9% of Belgium (1:705), 2.8% of Australia (1:2,604), 2.4% of Nigeria (1:22,741), 1.5% of Germany (1:16,231) and 1.4% of South Africa (1:12,113).

In Belgium, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:705) in Wallonia (1:296).

In France, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:765) in the following regions:^[5]

• 1. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (1:447)
• 2. Pays de la Loire (1:508)
• 3. Grand Est (1:560)
• 4. Normandy (1:573)
• 5. Centre-Val de Loire (1:661)
• 6. Guadeloupe (1:670)
• 7. French Guiana (1:677)
• 8. Hauts-de-France (1:715)

People with the given name

• Lambert, Bishop of Ostia (c. 1036–1130), became Pope Honorius II
• Lambert, Margrave of Tuscany (fl. 929–931), also count and duke of Lucca
• Lambert (pianist) (fl. 2014), stage name of German pianist Paul Lambert
• Lambert le Bègue, 12th century Belgian priest
• Lambert de Monte, also known as Lambert of Cologne (1430/5–1499), Dutch scholastic and Thomist
• Lambert of Ardres, (c. 1160–after 1203) 12th century French chronicler
• Lambert of Cologne, also known as Lambert de Monte (1430/5–1499), Dutch scholastic and thomist
• Lambert of Gallura (died 1225), giudice of Gallura, Sardinia
• Lambert of Hersfeld (c. 1024–c. 1088), Thuringian chronicler
• Lambert of Maastricht (c. 636 – c. 700), bishop, saint, and martyr
• Lambert of St-Bertin or Lambert of St-Omer (c. 1060–1125), medieval encyclopedist
• Lambert I of Leuven (c. 950–1015), count of Leuven
• Lambert II, Count of Leuven (1041–1063), count of Leuven
• Lambert I of Nantes (fl. 818–836), count of Nantes and duke of Spolete
• Lambert II of Nantes (fl. 843–851), count of Nantes
• Lambert III of Nantes (fl. 851–862), pretender to the County of Nantes
• Lambert I of Spoleto (died 880), duke and margrave of Spoleto
• Lambert II of Spoleto (c. 880–898), Holy Roman Emperor
• Lambert II, Count of Lens (died 1054), count of Lens
• Lambert-Sigisbert Adam (1700–1759), French sculptor
• Lambert Adelot (born 1898, date of death unknown), Belgian field hockey player
• Lambert Heinrich von Babo (1818–1899), German chemist
• Lambert Bartak, American organist
• Lambert Beauduin (1873–1960), Belgian monk, founder of Chevetogne Abbey, Belgium
• Lambert Blackwell Larking (1797–1868), English clergyman and antiquarian
• Lambert Bos (1670–1717), Dutch scholar
• Lambert Cadwalader (1742–1823), American merchant
• Lambert Daneau (c.1535–c.1590), French jurist and Calvinist theologian
• Lambert Ferri (fl. c. 1250–1300), trouvère and cleric at the monastery at Saint-Léonard, Pas-de-Calais
• Lambert Folkers (died 1761), Nova Scotia politician
• Lambert Grimaldi (1420–1494), Lord of Monaco
• Lambert Hamel (1940–2026), German actor and voice actor
• Lambert Hillyer (1889–1969), American director and screenwriter
• Lambert Hitchcock (1795–1852), American furniture manufacturer
• Lambert Lombard (1505–1566), painter and architect from the Low Countries
• Lambert Mascarenhas, 20th century Indian journalist
• Lambert McKenna (1870–1956), Irish scholar, editor and lexicographer
• Lambert Meertens (born 1944), Dutch computer scientist
• Lambert Murphy (1885–1954), American tenor
• Lambert Quetelet (1796–1874), alternate name of Adolphe Quételet, Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist
• Lambert Redd (1908–1986), American athlete
• Lambert Schaus (1908–1976), Luxembourgian politician
• Lambert Simnel (c. 1477–c. 1525), child pretender to the throne of England
• Lambert Sustris (c. 1515–20–c. 1584), Dutch painter
• Lambert Amon Tanoh (1926–2022), Ivorian politician
• Lambert van Nistelrooij (born 1953), Dutch politician
• Lambert of Vence (1084–1154), Bishop and saint
• Lambert Verdonk (born 1944), Dutch football player
• Sir Lambert Ward, 1st Baronet (1875–1956), British politician
• Lambert Wickes (1735–1777), American Continental Navy Captain
• Lambert Wilson (born 1958), French actor

People with the surname

• Lambert (surname)

In British peerage

• Viscount Lambert, British peerage title created in 1945
• Lambert Baronets, British baronetage title created in 1711

Fictional characters

• Alfred, Chip, Denise, Enid, and Gary Lambert, characters in Jonathan Franzen's 2001 novel "The Corrections"
• Darien Lambert, main character of the series Time Trax
• Eve Lambert, character from the American television series Port Charles
• Garrett Lambert, character from the American television series Community
• Irving Lambert, a major character in the Splinter Cell franchise
• Lambert Strether, character from Henry James's 1903 novel The Ambassadors
• Val Lambert, character from the British soap opera Emmerdale
• Chuck Lambert, character from Season 1 episode 4 ("Phantom Traveller") of "Supernatural"
• Joan Lambert, character from the 1979 film Alien
• Mr. Lambert, Walter White's fake identity in Breaking Bad
• Lambert, character from the 2022 game Cult of the Lamb, though this is a fandom name and not official.
• Lambert, character from "The Witcher" franchise
• Frank, John-Thomas (J.T.), Alicia (Al), and Brendan Lambert, characters from the American television series Step By Step (TV series)

See also

• Lamberg
• Lambertus
• Lampert
• Lamprecht (surname)

References

1. Albert Dauzat, Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de famille et prénoms de France, Larousse, 1980, édition revue et commentée par Marie-Thérèse Morlet, p. 361a
2. Hans Bahlow: Deutsches Namenlexikon. Familien- und Vornamen nach Ursprung und Sinn erklärt. Lizenzausgabe. Gondrom, Bindlach 1990, ISBN 3-8112-0294-4.
3. Site of Géopatronyme: Total number of birth by period in France
4. DAUZAT
5. Lambert surname distribution

External links

• The Lambert Surname (part of the Lambert DNA Project site)