Lamprecht
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements land ‘land’, ‘territory’ -F berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/læmpɹɛkt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lamprecht is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- ATAustria
- ZASouth Africa
- DEGermany
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements land ‘land’, ‘territory’ -F berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’. Compare Lambert.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lamprecht is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, patronymisch zu Rufname Lamprecht (mit Zweitglied ahd./as. beraht 'hell, glänzend'); 3952 Beleger (Lamprecht 2372, Lambrecht 1580).
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, Vollform im Osten und Süden; mhd. lamp 'Lamm' zugrunde liegend.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, patronymisch zu Rufname Lamprecht/Lambert; 3952 Belege
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lamprechtb. 112012th-century German poet
- Karl Lamprechtb. 1856DEGerman historian (1856–1915)
- Gerhard Lamprechtb. 1897DEFilm director, Screenwriter (1897-1974)
- Günter Lamprechtb. 1930DEGerman actor (1930–2022)
- Rudolf Lamprechtb. 1946ATAustrian architect and lighting designer
- Martin Lamprechtb. 1963SEmodern pentathlete
- Frank Lamprechtb. 1968DEGerman chess player
- Bettina Lamprechtb. 1977DEGerman actress
- Christopher Lamprechtb. 1985DEGerman footballer
- Chris LamprechtAmerican computer criminal
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 31 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,761 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 920 | #25,272 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 838 | #28,465 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 331 | #3,975 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 108 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 108 | #27,778 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 103 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 103 | #29,259 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 51 | #12,411 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 43 | #116,436 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 38 | #31,002 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 28 | #66,869 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Lamprecht come from?
- from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements land ‘land’, ‘territory’ -F berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’. Compare Lambert. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Lamprecht?
- In the etymology graph, Lambert, Baer and Lammert are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Lamprecht?
- A machine transcription gives /læmpɹɛkt/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Lamprecht mean?
- Recorded meaning: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements land ‘land’, ‘territory’ -F berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’.
- In which country does Lamprecht have the most bearers?
- Lamprecht is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lamprechtThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
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Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lamprecht”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.