Lombard Surname
Approximately 51,036 people bear this surname
Lombard Surname Definition:
This surname is derived from a nickname. 'the Lombard,' one who came from Lombardy. One or two of the names recorded below are evidently Jewish.
Jacob le Lumberd. Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum in Turri Londinesi.
Jacobina la Lumbard, London.
Read More About This SurnameLombard Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 20,546 | 1:2,637 | 325 |
| France | 17,138 | 1:3,876 | 294 |
| United States | 8,399 | 1:43,155 | 5,296 |
| England | 612 | 1:91,043 | 9,811 |
| Ireland | 561 | 1:8,394 | 1,171 |
| Canada | 480 | 1:76,762 | 8,638 |
| Australia | 404 | 1:66,821 | 7,958 |
| Belgium | 388 | 1:29,631 | 4,786 |
| Mexico | 315 | 1:394,051 | 7,877 |
| Saudi Arabia | 278 | 1:110,992 | 14,774 |
| Switzerland | 215 | 1:38,200 | 5,495 |
| Namibia | 199 | 1:12,108 | 2,279 |
| Argentina | 186 | 1:229,803 | 18,801 |
| New Zealand | 112 | 1:40,431 | 6,796 |
| Brazil | 101 | 1:2,119,548 | 66,584 |
| Germany | 100 | 1:805,055 | 59,076 |
| Haiti | 90 | 1:118,710 | 5,456 |
| New Caledonia | 68 | 1:4,062 | 723 |
| Russia | 68 | 1:2,119,457 | 129,651 |
| Italy | 65 | 1:940,872 | 68,025 |
| Zimbabwe | 59 | 1:261,665 | 27,736 |
| Botswana | 44 | 1:49,703 | 9,263 |
| French Polynesia | 43 | 1:6,530 | 1,442 |
| Israel | 41 | 1:208,723 | 20,048 |
| Netherlands | 38 | 1:444,399 | 44,765 |
| Spain | 37 | 1:1,263,569 | 42,239 |
| Sweden | 34 | 1:289,610 | 20,124 |
| Gibraltar | 29 | 1:1,171 | 268 |
| Guam | 29 | 1:5,521 | 755 |
| Scotland | 29 | 1:184,614 | 10,113 |
| Thailand | 26 | 1:2,716,859 | 279,944 |
| Dominican Republic | 23 | 1:453,606 | 14,824 |
| Luxembourg | 21 | 1:27,645 | 4,917 |
| Ukraine | 20 | 1:2,276,135 | 151,395 |
| Suriname | 19 | 1:29,085 | 5,642 |
| Mozambique | 16 | 1:1,703,848 | 2,274 |
| Hungary | 15 | 1:654,418 | 37,235 |
| Monaco | 15 | 1:2,471 | 143 |
| Jersey | 10 | 1:9,920 | 2,003 |
| Morocco | 9 | 1:3,830,678 | 54,497 |
| Hong Kong | 8 | 1:916,935 | 4,774 |
| Wales | 8 | 1:386,816 | 19,671 |
| Estonia | 8 | 1:165,226 | 26,217 |
| Czechia | 7 | 1:1,519,067 | 97,842 |
| Slovakia | 7 | 1:762,350 | 73,078 |
| Denmark | 7 | 1:806,388 | 43,211 |
| China | 6 | 1:227,886,928 | 11,701 |
| Qatar | 6 | 1:393,000 | 55,922 |
| India | 5 | 1:153,413,076 | 951,030 |
| Madagascar | 4 | 1:5,912,459 | 5,394 |
| Zambia | 4 | 1:3,962,480 | 38,524 |
| Iraq | 4 | 1:8,755,414 | 23,373 |
| Singapore | 4 | 1:1,376,926 | 28,409 |
| Kazakhstan | 4 | 1:4,420,624 | 134,293 |
| Congo | 4 | 1:1,247,274 | 20,238 |
| Cuba | 4 | 1:2,880,679 | 10,064 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1:152,656 | 17,743 |
| Egypt | 4 | 1:22,983,938 | 62,368 |
| Norway | 4 | 1:1,285,572 | 69,185 |
| Malaysia | 3 | 1:9,831,408 | 269,765 |
| Philippines | 3 | 1:33,746,074 | 302,898 |
| Taiwan | 3 | 1:7,814,915 | 41,694 |
| United States Virgin Islands | 3 | 1:36,792 | 4,502 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| Ecuador | 2 | 1:7,952,923 | 34,269 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Vietnam | 2 | 1:46,323,027 | 5,235 |
| Austria | 2 | 1:4,257,718 | 99,224 |
| Poland | 2 | 1:19,004,374 | 199,659 |
| Indonesia | 2 | 1:66,124,597 | 756,638 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Mali | 1 | 1:16,969,035 | 4,067 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 1:9,649,122 | 47,873 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| Moldova | 1 | 1:3,561,368 | 78,271 |
| Lesotho | 1 | 1:2,032,558 | 23,402 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 1:5,637,083 | 32,436 |
| Uruguay | 1 | 1:3,431,758 | 38,295 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Bahamas | 1 | 1:391,751 | 2,737 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 1:23,071,232 | 76,679 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Peru | 1 | 1:31,784,123 | 64,452 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 1:3,550,139 | 9,109 |
| Bermuda | 1 | 1:65,279 | 3,010 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Sierra Leone | 1 | 1:7,089,631 | 1,533 |
| Rwanda | 1 | 1:11,364,978 | 5,947 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 283 | 1:15,653 | 1,969 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 93 | 1:262,101 | 18,696 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1,779 | 1:28,229 | 3,459 |
Lombard (352) may also be a first name.
Lombard Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
This surname is derived from a nickname. 'the Lombard,' one who came from Lombardy. One or two of the names recorded below are evidently Jewish.
Jacob le Lumberd. Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum in Turri Londinesi.
Jacobina la Lumbard, London. Riley's Memorials of London.
Jenteyt Lumbardus, London, 1273. Hundred Rolls.
Richard Lomberd, Kent, ibid.
John Lumbard, Oxfordshire, ibid.
Michael le Lumbard, Close Rolls, 12 Edward I.
Marcus le Lumbard, Close Rolls, 20 Edward I.
1657. Married — Hugh Lumbard and Jane Tayler: St. James, Clerkenwell.
Lombard Street, London, took its name from being the district in which the Italian merchants resided. It will be seen that several of the instances above hail from the metropolis.
"A native of Lombardy." Antony, a Lombard physician, obtained a grant of the lands of Fulton, Renfrewshire, from Alan, son of Walter, the Steward, a. 1204 (RMP., p. 53). His posterity held these lands under the Stewarts and were surnamed Lombard. In 1272 Sir Antony Lumbard quitclaimed the lands to the monastery of Paisley (ibid., p. 50—51). Lumbard, a layman, was one of those concerned in the mutilation of John, bishop of Caithness, 1202 (CSR., I, p. 3).
(Anglo-French-Latin-Teut.) 1 a Native of Lombardy, anciently Langobardia or Longo- bardia, the land of the Langobardi or Longobardi (Langobarden), evid. so called from their ‘long beards’ [Old Teutonic lang, long + bard, beard] 2 Banker, Moneylender (from the Lombard banker-immigrants into England in the Middle Ages, whence Lombard Street, London).
Tacitus’ testimony to the renown of the old Elbian Longobardi will be recalled —Longobardos paucitas nobilitat.—Germania, xl.
Sceáfa [weóld] Longbeardum (Sceáfa [ruled] the Longbeards or Lombards),—Wídsið (The Traveller), 66.
A letter from Charlemagne to Offa, King of the Mercians, begins: ‘Karolus gratia Dei rex Francorum et Longdbard- orum . . .’—Cart. Sax., 270.
Since the Middle Ages the term lombard in France has signified a pawnbroker or keeper of a mont-de-piété; also the establishment itself.
Cp. Lumbard.
An occupative name (Lombard meant banker) in Munster since the thirteenth century. MIF 165; Map Cork
“Person from Lombardy” in Northern Italy. Taking the name from the Teutonic Langobards who settled there in the 6th Century. Applied by the French to Italians in general.
(English) One who came from Lombardy (long-bearded men), in Italy.
A native of Lombardy. See Lambarde. Any banker or usurer was so called. In the Netherlands, a Lombard was an excommunicated person. He was denied the sacraments and Christian burial, and no priest would "marry him to any woman, except hee first promise to leave off being a Lumbarde, and doe make restitution." Archaeologia, xxix. 286.
(English), Banker, also Native of Lombardy.
Lombard Demographics
Average Lombard Salary in
United States
$47,042 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Lombard Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Lombard Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Lombard (Russian: Ломбард) occurs most in South Africa. It can also appear as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of Lombard.
How Common Is The Last Name Lombard? popularity and diffusion
Lombard is the 10,999th most frequent last name globally. It is borne by around 1 in 142,792 people. It occurs mostly in Africa, where 41 percent of Lombard are found; 41 percent are found in Southern Africa and 41 percent are found in South Bantu Africa. It is also the 464,438th most common given name at a global level, held by 352 people.
This surname is most commonly used in South Africa, where it is carried by 20,546 people, or 1 in 2,637. In South Africa Lombard is most common in: Gauteng, where 33 percent are found, Western Cape, where 21 percent are found and Mpumalanga, where 9 percent are found. Other than South Africa this last name exists in 95 countries. It is also found in France, where 34 percent are found and The United States, where 16 percent are found.
Lombard Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Lombard has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the last name grew 472 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it grew 658 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it grew 198 percent between 1901 and 2014.
Lombard Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the last name is primarily Catholic (95%) in Ireland and Orthodox (100%) in Russia.
In The United States Lombard are 4.73% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 51.5% being registered with the political party.
The amount Lombard earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 17.31% more than the national average, earning 405,998 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 78.47% more than the national average, earning R 424,104 per year; in United States they earn 9.02% more than the national average, earning $47,042 USD per year and in Canada they earn 12.09% less than the national average, earning $43,677 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Lombard Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Lombard in the Russian language | ||
| Ломбард | lombard | - |
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