Is lambert a jewish name?

Any name can be Jewish. There are very few exclusively Jewish names. A lot of names in the U.S. are identified as Jewish as a large portion of immigrants with certain names were Jewish while back in their country of origin the same name was used by Jews and non Jews. For instance names ending in "stein" "berg" "burg" "ski" "sky" etc are not necessarily Jewish.





Also the 3 branches of Judaism do not define a Jew the same way.





Reform Jews define a Jew by the religion alone.





Orthodox and Conservative Jews define the Jew by the mother alone, not the father or necessarily the religion. They state if person does not have a Jewish mother the only way they can be Jewish is to convert to Judaism. While they are Jewish if they have a Jewish mother, even though they have renounced their Jewish faith.





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Is lambert a jewish name?
lambert Name Meaning and History


English, French, Dutch, and German: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements land 鈥榣and鈥? 鈥榯erritory鈥?+ berht 鈥榖right鈥? 鈥榝amous鈥? In England, the native Old English form Landbeorht was replaced by Lambert, the Continental form of the name that was taken to England by the Normans from France. The name gained wider currency in Britain in the Middle Ages with the immigration of weavers from Flanders, among whom St. Lambert or Lamprecht, bishop of Maastricht in around 700, was a popular cult figure. In Italy the name was popularized in the Middle Ages as a result of the fame of Lambert I and II, Dukes of Spoleto and Holy Roman Emperors.
Reply:I see this type question all the time. Unless it is an Hebrew name, ANY NAME CAN BE JEWISH! Why? Because Jerusalem was destroyed and almost all Jews flew throughout the Roman Empire...and kept fleeing!


They adopted the language, customs, the whole nine yards, of whatever country they adopted.


So, Jews have German names, French names, Italian names, Turkish names, Russian names, Polish names, Romanian names, etc.
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Lambert Name Meaning and History


English, French, Dutch, and German: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements land 鈥?quot;land"鈥? 鈥?quot;territory"鈥?+ berht 鈥?quot;bright"鈥? 鈥?quot;famous"鈥? In England, the native Old English form "Landbeorht" was replaced by Lambert, the Continental form of the name that was taken to England by the Normans from France. The name gained wider currency in Britain in the Middle Ages with the immigration of weavers from Flanders, among whom St. Lambert or Lamprecht, bishop of Maastricht in around 700, was a popular cult figure. In Italy the name was popularized in the Middle Ages as a result of the fame of Lambert I and II, Dukes of Spoleto and Holy Roman Emperors.





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Recorded in over forty spelling forms from Lambert, Lambard and Limprecht, to Lambrich, Lambertini and Lemmens, this surname is almost certainly of very early German origins. As a surname it started life in the 12th century, but the derivation is from a pre 5th century personal name. This was 'Landbehrt', composed of the elements "land", meaning territory, and "berht", bright, and while the meaning may have been "Bright land", it may not have had a meaning at all! Nevertheless, it is one of a group of 'made up' names, apparently extolling the virtues of land ownership, and territorial possession. Whether this was fact or wishful thinking, is not proven. What is known is that St. Lambert, Bishop of Maastricht in about the year 700 a.d, was highly venerated, and a source of the name's popularity. Examples of the early recordings include Gozelinus filius Lamberti of Yorkshire, England,in the famous Domesday Book of 1086, but clearly this name was not hereditary in the sense we know it today, nor was that of Tiddemus filius Lamberti of Hamburg in 1262. Another source of the name can be the Olde English 'Lambhierd', representing the occupation of lamb-herd, the first recorded namebearer being William Lambhyrde, in the 1255 Assize Court Rolls of Essex. Charles Lambert, aged 23 yrs., was an early settler in the New World Colonies, leaving London on the "Expedition" bound for the Barbadoes, in November 1635. The first recorded spelling of the family name anywhere in the world is believed to be that of Richard Lambert, which was dated 1148, in the 'Pipe Rolls' of Hampshire. This was during the reign of King Stephen of England, known as "Count of Blois", 1135 - 1154.





http://www.familysearch.org has these varied spellings:


LUMBERT ; LOMBARD; LAMBERD; LAMBARTH; LAMBARD ; LAMBETH ; DE LAMBINET; DE LAMBERTYE ;


LAMBERTSEN; LAMBERTSSON ; LAMBERTSDR.; LAMBERTI ; LAMPERT ; LAMPARTNER; LAMPERTZ; LAMPARTER ; LEMBERT ; LAMBERTS ; LAMBRIGTSEN ;


LAMBRETSEN ; LAMBERTSDATTER; DE LAMBERTE; LAMBERTSENS ; L' LAMBERT; %26amp; LAMBRECHTSDATTER.


The earliest listings I saw were (Lantbertus) Lambert II --


Birth: 650 AD; Death: 741 AD; he was married abt 0695.


His grandfather was Lambert I (Lanterbertus)--b. abt 605 AD, d. aft 650 AD. (his line goes back to Soissons Chlothar I "The Old" B: abt 497 AD, Rheims, Marne, France , D: 25 Nov 561 AD,Braines, Lorraine, France and Ingund (Ingolde) Thuringian , B. 500 AD in Thuringia, Germany)