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Lambert

#7,029 in 2025Boys' name

Land + bright

Lambert has been given to 3,515 babies in the U.S. since 1881. In 2025 it ranked #7,029 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1918, with 98 recorded.

Babies named Lambert, 2025

1 in 276,000

Lambert over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lambert: meaning, origin, and history

Land + bright

Germanic languages

What Lambert means

Lambert means “land + bright”, associated with land and berht.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Middle English Lambert, from Old French Lambert, a saint's name (of a Bishop of Maastricht) brought to England by the Normans, from Proto-West Germanic *Landaberht, from *land (“land”) + *berht (“bright”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Lambert (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Lambert is used in English and French. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Lambert comes through Middle English Lambert, Old French Lambert and Proto-West Germanic *Landaberht.

Lambert is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Landbeorht and Lantberht.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Lambert is pronounced /ˈlæmbɚt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,515 boys were recorded with the name Lambert between 1881 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 98 in 1918; its best national rank was #570 in 1900.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,451 in 2020 to #7,029 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,890 in 2015 to #7,029 in 2025.

How common is Lambert?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,029
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lambert sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lambert. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lamberts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lambert was born before 1937 — so the typical Lambert is around 88 today.

Median birth year
1937
About 88 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
18.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,317
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 18.9% of all recorded uses (666).

Is Lambert rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+2,470
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,422
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,139
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.80×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
12.2%
Peak was 1918 (98)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#570
1900

Spellings of Lambert

Lambert is not the most common spelling — Albert is, with 98.7% against Lambert's 0.71%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Lambert is used

Across 1910–2025, Lambert was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 168,829 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 12,500
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 33,333
  3. 3Nebraska1 in 33,333
  4. 4Illinois1 in 50,000
  5. 5Iowa1 in 100,000
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 100,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 100,000
  8. 8Missouri1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Lambert has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lambert around the world

Where Lambert ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2019–2019
    #4,702
    in 2019
  • France
    1900–2025
    #4,896
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #756
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1958–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Lambert

People whose public names include Lambert, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Lambert in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Lambert. Linked forms have their own page here.

LambertoLammertLambertus

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Lambert by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,029
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,422
Best rank ever
#570
1900
Peak year
1918
98 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,515
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Lambert

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

LamonteLamarcusLamarrLamarionCalvertRupertLamontEvertLamariHilbertLamarioLamineLamontaeLamirLamondHalbertLamonLamoineAdelbertWilbertHobertLamarDelbertColbert

Names with a curve like Lambert

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Lambert, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

IvyLlewellynThorntonRudolfGarnettWebsterMurryLonzoCarlyleOranClovisObie

Sibling names for Lambert

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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