Lambert
Lambert is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 570th, in 1900.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 191898 births
- Best rank
- #570in 1900
- Since 1881
- 3,503people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,503 boys have been named Lambert in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 98 births.
The name has all but left use: 8 births in 2024, against 98 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1937, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 45 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Lambert | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 57 | |
| 1890s | 78 | |
| 1900s | 91 | |
| 1910s | 547 | |
| 1920s | 666 | |
| 1930s | 411 | |
| 1940s | 348 | |
| 1950s | 381 | |
| 1960s | 257 | |
| 1970s | 185 | |
| 1980s | 165 | |
| 1990s | 109 | |
| 2000s | 67 | |
| 2010s | 98 | |
| 2020s | 43 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Lambert was the 623rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Lambert
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Waltonpeak 1922
- Clementpeak 1918
- Alfredpeak 1928
- Chesterpeak 1920
- Irvinpeak 1923
- Sidneypeak 1918
- Edmundpeak 1923
- Clydepeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.