Gámboa
surname · Latin script
Gámboa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. In Costa Rica it is the 51st most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Gamboa, from Basque Ganboa. Gámboa is also written Гамбоа in Cyrillic.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 195(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 1.3K
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.4K
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 Gámboa 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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 348 (measured from records)
- 1 in 195 (inferred from the name graph)
≈61,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Gámboa in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gamboa in MX Mexico, PE Peru, CR Costa Rica and 4 more.
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)- SpanishGamboa(measured from records)
- BasqueGanboa(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish Gamboa, from Basque Ganboa.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Gámboa is found
(measured from records)Gámboa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #270 | ≈61,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 1.2K | Gamboa | 207 |
| PH Philippines | #237 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Gamboa | 90 |
| CO Colombia | #238 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 18 | Gamboa | 150 |
| CR Costa Rica | #51 | 26,106 | 1 in 195 | 26K | Gamboa | 112 |
| PE Peru | #235 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Gamboa | 85 |
| VE Venezuela | #281 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Gamboa | 63 |
| CL Chile | #428 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Gamboa | 87 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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 Gámboa mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Gamboa, from Basque Ganboa. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gámboa?
- Mondonomo estimates about 61 thousand people named Gámboa in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gamboa. After it come Philippines, Colombia, Costa Rica and Peru; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Gámboa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gámboa is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 195 people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gámboa?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 26,106 people named Gámboa, about 1 in 195 residents.
- How common is Gámboa compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Gámboa is the 270th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%A1mboaThe 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, “Gámboa” — ranked 285th in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.