Lambert
A Germanic name meaning "bright land". It barely registers in Poland: only a few dozen men carry it, all of them male, and most Poles will never meet one.
Lambert Pronunciation
Lambert is pronounced LAHM-bert (/ˈlambɛrt/).
What Lambert means
Where Lambert comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Lambert comes from Germanic roots, joining land to beraht, the word for bright. Put together they give the meaning kept on Polish name cards: bright land, or sławny w kraju. The name traveled into Poland with German settlers and clergy, and the German association stayed with it.
One bearer fixed it in the calendar. Saint Lambert of Maastricht, a bishop killed around 705, has his feast on 17 September, and that date still marks Lambert's imieniny. His cult spread through the Low Countries and into German lands, and the name went along.
Lambert keeps no diminutive of its own in Polish records. It stands as written. On a class register it reads full and plain, the land of its first half and the bert that means bright. That pairing gives sławny w kraju, bright land.
When Lambert celebrates name day
Lambert appears 5 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 14 April.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Lambert
1 in 338828 men in Poland is named Lambert. 63 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4624 among male names.
Lambert's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Lambert as a middle name
Lambert is a first name for 63 men in Poland and a middle name for another 70, a 47/53 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 861st, between Ioan (70) and Luciano (70).
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#859 Grant70
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#860 Ioan70
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#861 Lambert70
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#862 Luciano70
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#863 Malik70