Lombard
loc · Latin script
Meaning: (i) Person from Lombardy, Italy; (ii) banker or money-lender, reflecting the occupation of many Italian immigrants in medieval England
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Lombard is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 23Kas Lombardi(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 5.8K
- LALaos≈1 in 17K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lombard itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 336 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈60,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Lombardi in LA Laos.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
(i) Person from Lombardy, Italy; (ii) banker or money-lender, reflecting the occupation of many Italian immigrants in medieval England.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lombard counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈60,000 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Lombard | 5 |
| US United States | 14,227as Lombardi | 1 in 23K | 14K | Lombard | 336 |
| FR France | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | 1.5K | — | 7 |
| BR Brazil | 7,039as Lombardi | 1 in 30K | 7K | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 4,819as Lombardi | 1 in 9.4K | 4.8K | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 1,057as Lombardi | 1 in 3.2K | 1.1K | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 838as Lombardi | 1 in 10K | 838 | — | 24 |
| LA Laos | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Lombardi | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 341 | 1 in 34K | 350 | — | 23 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
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)
Lombard is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, either from OFr Lambert (cf. Lambard) or ‘a Lombard’, a native of Lombardy, often a banker/moneylender; first attested Lumbardus 1203
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, ethnic name for someone from Lombardy in Italy. The re¬ gion is named from the Gmc tribe which overran the area in the 6th cent, ad; its name is attested only in the Latin¬ Longan see Langan
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, A member of a Germanic people who invaded Italy in the 6th century.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, de Lombard; surnom d’un individu originaire de Lombardie en Italie
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In French, Les Lombards étaient les seuls, avec les Juifs, à pouvoir faire commerce de l’argent au Moyen Âge. Ils furent si nombreux qu’il n’y a presque aucune grande ville d’Europe qui n’ait sa rue du Lombard, voire des Lombards. Le mot devint un nom commun pour désigner un banquier, un usurier ou un prêteur sur gage, sens archaïques aujourd’hui.
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
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)
- Lambert Lombardb. 1505BEFlemish painter (1505-1566)
- Gustav Lombardb. 1895DEGerman general (1895–1992)
- Carole Lombardb. 1908USAmerican actress (1908-1942)
- Michael Lombardb. 1934USactor (1934-2020)
- Alain Lombardb. 1940FRFrench conductor
- Claude Lombardb. 1945BEBelgian singer (1945–2021)
- Karina Lombardb. 1969FRFrench-American actress
- Louise Lombardb. 1970GBBritish actress
- George Lombardb. 1975USAmerican baseball player
- Montserrat Lombardb. 1982GBBritish actress
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 32 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.9K | #5,875 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.8K | #5,548 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.5K | #5,983 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 2.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 2.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 1.8K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 1.7K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 1.6K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 1.6K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 1.5K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 1.4K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 1.4K | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- What does the name Lombard mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) Person from Lombardy, Italy; (ii) banker or money-lender, reflecting the occupation of many Italian immigrants in medieval England. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Lombard have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 60 thousand people named Lombard in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lombard.
- How common is the name Lombard?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 341 people named Lombard in 2008, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lombard”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.