Lambe: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

It is easy to miss Lambe in an index if you only search for Lamb. The name is generally explained as “Lamb, a gentle person, or from Lambert”.

• Lambe adds “e” to Lamb, a small change that crept in as the name was written down.
• 1,211 Americans were listed as Lambe in the 2010 census. That puts it among the top 25,000 US surnames.
• You may also find the name written Lamming.
• Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists.

Lambe coat of arms

Arms linked to Lamb and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. For the full story, order the Lambe surname pack.