Lampert
A surname usually treated as a form of Lambert, ultimately from a Germanic name meaning “land-bright” or “bright land.”
The #9,344 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 88,618 Americans shares it.
Etymology
Lampert is generally a variant of Lambert, a medieval Germanic personal name built from elements meaning “land” and “bright” or “famous.” In surname use, it usually began as a patronymic: a family name taken from an ancestor called Lambert or one of its regional spelling forms such as Lampert, Lamprecht, or Lampaert. The historical evidence points to Lampert as mainly a spelling and dialectal variant rather than a wholly separate surname.
History
The name spread through medieval Europe in many forms, especially in Germanic- and French-speaking areas, and later appears in English records as a surname variant alongside Lambert. Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century surname scholars repeatedly treated Lampert as one of the many regional spellings descended from the same personal name. In the United States today it survives as a comparatively uncommon surname.
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Fun fact
Surname scholars noted several close cousins of Lampert, including Lampard and the German forms Lamprecht and Lammert.
From the historical record
“s ! L ambert, Lampert, Lambrecht, m. Liibbert, m. ; Lubberts, Lubbers, anbert, Lanpert, Lantpert, m. fam. n. 36”
— British Family Names: their origin and meaning (2nd ed.)