Lambert
Lambert reached its high-water mark in 1918 at number 620, and has been recorded 3,515 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 6,803rd. About 1,300 Lamberts are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 57.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Lambert
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,515
- Estimated living today
- 1,300
- Median age today
- 57
- Peak year
- 1918
- Best rank
- 620th
- Rank in 2025
- 6,803rd
- First recorded
- 1881
How old the living Lamberts are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,515 babies given the name since 1881, about 1,300 are alive — 38 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1968 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Germanic languages
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. Cognate with Old English Landbeorht, Old High German Lantberht, Dutch Lambrecht.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Lamberts
- Lambert II of Spoleto (880–898)king of Italy, Holy Roman Emperor, and Duke of Spoleto and Camerino
- Lambert Wilson (born 1958)French actor
- Lambert of Maastricht (635–705)bishop of Maastricht
- Lambert Lombard (1505–1566)Flemish painter
- Lambert I, Count of Louvain (950–1015)Belgian noble
- Lambert Simnel (1477–1535)Imposter-pretender to the throne of England
- Lambert Hillyer (1893–1969)Film director, Screenwriter
- Lambert Sigisbert Adam (1700–1759)French sculptor
People named Lambert with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lambert is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lambert is most concentrated in Hawaii (22.0×), Nebraska (7.3×), Minnesota (7.0×), Illinois (4.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1918
The most popular boys’ names the year Lambert peaked:
Lambert elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Lambert | 2,070 | 362nd |
| France girls | Lambert | 125 | 667th |
| Poland boys | Lambert | 4 birth registrations | 598th |
| England and Wales boys | Lambert | 3 | 4,702nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Lambert among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Lambert | 2,600 | 5,417 |
| the Netherlands girls | Lambert | — | 77 |
| Finland boys | Lambert | — | 22 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Lambert against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.