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The first name 
Lambert

Lambert is a first name for boys.

Lambert – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a boy named Lambert in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Lambert in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Lambert by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Lambert ranks at #6,237. That means there are 6,236 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Lambert.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Lambert

Lambert -
a special name with a long history

Lambert is not one of the particularly popular names. In fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 2010, where the name Lambert was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If your name is Lambert and you were born in the USA in 2010, please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the last century, Lambert even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular boys' names: In 1900, it ranked on position 509 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Lambert was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Happy Birthday - 10 boys named Lambert celebrate their second birthday this year

Even though the popularity of the name Lambert has fluctuated in the past and there were years when the name was almost not chosen at all by expectant parents, it has without question arrived in the 21st century. In 2022, the name was given a remarkable 10 times by young parents to their newborn children and thus landed on position 6,627 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular boys' names. Nevertheless, the name is still so rare that the 10 boys named Lambert, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is most likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children who turn around when someone calls 'Lambert'.

Lambert -
at home in half of America

The odds that a man or boy named Lambert lives in your home state are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This boy’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet boys and men with the name Lambert in 20 states – which is obviously nearly every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Illinois or Iowa. In relation to the number of residents, the most men and boys with the first name Lambert live in Hawaii – here, one in 12,347 bears this name. In comparison, if we look at all living men and boys in the whole country, only one in 258,396 will turn around if you call his first name Lambert.

Lambert has 7 letters 
and begins with an L

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 4.1% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common initials of boys' names.

With seven letters, the name Lambert has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Thus, it follows that with 4.1% of all boys' names starting with an L, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with L that are quite common, the most common in the U.S. at present is Larry.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Lambert

If your name is Lambert and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Lambert

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Lambert, you can simply say:

Lion

Apple

Mouse

Butterfly

Elephant

Rocket

Tiger

This is how the name Lambert is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Lambert in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Lambert

Lambert

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Lambert

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Lambert is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

L
A
M
B
E
R
T

Have you ever waved the name Lambert

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

L
A
M
B
E
R
T

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Lambert sounds like this: