Lambert

89,460 people in the United States were counted with the surname Lambert in the 2020 census, making it the 342nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 3,341.

By the numbers

People: 89,460
Rank: 342nd
How common: 1 in 3,341
Per 100,000: 29.9

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

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.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Lambert described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 80.4%
Black, not Hispanic 10.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Lambert

Adam Lambert (born 1982)American singer
Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728–1777)German mathematician, physicist and astronomer
Christopher Lambert (born 1957)American actor
Rickie Lambert (born 1982)English footballer
Miranda Lambert (born 1983)American country singer
Paul Lambert (born 1969)Scottish association football manager
Raoul Lambert (born 1944)Belgian footballer
Adelaide Lambert (1907–1996)American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, former world record-holder

People named Lambert with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Lambert

Also a first name

Lambert has been given to 3,515 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 1918. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.