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) only in one region: Wallonia (1:296).

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

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In British peerage

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
  • 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

See also

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
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