Lamberto

Meaning of Lamberto

Lamberto is an Italian masculine name with roots in the medieval Latin Lambertus and the Old German elements landa (“land”) and berht (“bright”). Associated with Saint Lambert of Maastricht, a 7th-century bishop and martyr, it gained traction among Italian nobility and later filtered into village registers across the peninsula. Today it retains a classical resonance in Italy while remaining rare in the United States, where annual tallies since the 1980s have hovered between five and a dozen newborns—placing it around the 900th spot in recent Social Security rankings. Pronounced lam-BER-toh, Lamberto offers parents a distinctive, three-syllable choice grounded in European heritage.

Pronunciation

Italian

• Pronunced as lam-BER-toh (/lamˈbɛrto/)

• Umberto
• Alberto
• Lambert
• Humberto
• Roberto
• Filiberto
• Gualberto