Gàme
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Gàme is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from Middle English game, gamen ‘amusement’, ‘pastime’ (Old English gamen), hence a nickname for a merry or sporty person.
- USUnited States≈1 in 7M(inferred from the name graph)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 582K
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 1.2M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 186 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 582K (inferred from the name graph)
≈97 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Game in US United States, HK Hong Kong, ZA South Africa and 2 more and Gãmê in DZ Algeria.
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)
from Middle English game, gamen ‘amusement’, ‘pastime’ (Old English gamen), hence a nickname for a merry or sporty person.
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gàme 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 582K | — | Game | 11 |
| US United States | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 7M | 417 | Game | 186 |
| BR Brazil | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 5.1M | 112 | — | — |
| DZ Algeria | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Gãmê | 2 |
| FR France | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | 18 | — | 3 |
| GH Ghana | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Game | 6 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Game | 1 |
| SG Singapore | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | — | Game | 2 |
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 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gàme mean, and where does it come from?
- from Middle English game, gamen ‘amusement’, ‘pastime’ (Old English gamen), hence a nickname for a merry or sporty person. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- Is Gàme a male or female name?
- Gàme is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Gàme have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 97 people named Gàme in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled game.
- How common is the name Gàme?
- Mondonomo estimates about 97 people in South Africa have Gàme as their first given name, about 1 in 582 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%A0meThe 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
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, “Gàme”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.