Lambert
LAM-bert
A Germanic name meaning “bright land” or “famous among the people,” though it has sometimes been misread as “bright lamb.”
Meaning
The name Lambert is generally treated as a Germanic name built from elements meaning “land” and “bright,” or more broadly “famous/renowned among the people.” One excerpt notes that it was historically translated as “bright or fair lamb,” but then rejects that as absurd; another gives the older form Laudbert and explains it from land-brecht, “one distinguished among the people.”
Origin
Old GermanGermanicFrenchEnglishDutchmasculine
Fun fact
A medieval surname form, Lambyn/Lambinet, developed as a pet form of Lambert.