Lancelot

French

"servant"

Lancelot Origin and Meaning

The name Lancelot is a boy's name of French origin meaning "servant".

In Arthurian legend, Lancelot was one of the most dashing of the Knights of the Round Table who eventually had an affair with Queen Guinevere: it makes for a romantic story-- but perhaps overly romantic-- name.

An older spelling is Launcelot, as seen in Shakespeare's Launcelot Gabbo in The Merchant of Venice and two Tobias Smollett novels.

Short form Lance has had an independent life of his own.

Lancelot Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 1461 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Lancelot

• 1461 Nameberry 2025

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Famous People Named Lancelot

• Saint Lancelot Andrewes Anglican bishop who oversaw the translation of the King James Version of the Bible
• Lancelot "Capability" Brown English landscape architect
• Lancelot Thomas Hogben English zoologist and statistician
• Lancelot Blackburne English Archbishop of York and possible pirate
• Lancelot Speed English illustrator
• Lancelot Andrew Noel Slocock English rugby union player
• Lancelot Eldin "Lance" de Mole Australian engineer and inventor
• Sir Lancelot Oliphant British diplomat
• Neville Lancelot Goddard (1905 1972), metaphysical author

The name Lancelot in Pop Culture

• Sir Lancelot knight of King Arthur legends
• Sir Lancelot Spratt irascible surgeon in Richard Gordon's 'Doctor in the House' (1952) and its sequels
• "Lancelot Link Secret Chimp," TV series about a talking chimpanzee spy