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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from an Old English personal name, either Lēodmǣr or Lēofmǣr, from lēod ‘people’, ‘tribe’ or lēof ‘beloved’ + mǣr ‘famous’.
  • German : from the personal name Lambert.

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