Lamberto

• Spanish:/lambert̪o/○(machine-generated) model-generated
• Italian:/lamˈbɛr.to/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Lamberto is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• Spanish55%

  from Germanic *land- 'land' + *berht- 'bright'

  as a name·Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  Germánico: land 'país, tierra' + berht 'brillo'; 'ilustre en el país'.

  as a name·Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

• English28%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Lamberto in English.

• Italian7.8%

  Di origine germanica: land 'terra, paese' + bert 'illustre, splendido, splendore'.

  as a name·Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

  forma ital. de Lambertus

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Lamberto is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• Illustre nella sua terra

  as a name·Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

• País ilustre

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Lambert II of Spoletob. 880ITnot in their usual nameking of Italy, Holy Roman Emperor, and Duke of Spoleto and Camerino (880-898)
• Lamberto Maggioranib. 1909ITactor (1909-1983)
• Lamberto Dinib. 1931ITItalian economist, politician

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

47 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 24 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Lamberto mean, and where does it come from?

from Germanic *land- 'land' + *berht- 'bright' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.

How do you pronounce Lamberto?

It depends on the language: in Spanish /lambert̪o/; in Italian /lamˈbɛr.to/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

Is Lamberto a male or female name?

Lamberto is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Spain (INE) and Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)).

In which country does Lamberto have the most bearers?

Lamberto is most frequently recorded in the Philippines.