Gáme
surname · Latin script
Gáme is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil 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.
- PLPoland≈1 in 13Mas גיים(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil≈1 in 53Mas גיים
- ILIsrael≈1 in 3.3Mfew recordsas גיים
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gáme itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3M (inferred from the name graph)
≈4 named גיים, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Israel, est., as גיים
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled גיים in IL Israel.
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.
Cited for this meaning 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 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gáme 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 53M | 112 | — | 2 |
| IL Israel | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | 5 | גיים | 8 |
| PL Poland | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 13M | 2 | — | 1 |
| IN India | — | — | 422 | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | — | 417 | — | 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBS Israel — Names given to babies (1949–present); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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 Gáme 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.
- In which country does Gáme have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4 people named גיים in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Gáme?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4 people in Brazil have גיים as their first given name, about 1 in 53 million 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%A1meThe 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, “Gáme”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.