Gąbka
surname · Latin script
Meaning: sponge (invertebrate)
/ɡɔmpka/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gąbka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 33K(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 35 (measured from records)
- 1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
1,161 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gabka in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 1 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)
sponge (invertebrate)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gąbka 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 1,161 | 1 in 33K | 607 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Gabka | 35 |
| DE Germany | — | — | — | Gabka | 30 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Gabka | 10 |
| NL Netherlands | — | — | — | Gabka | 2 |
1,161 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Joachim Gabkab. 1926DEGerman physician, university teacher, historian and philatelist (1926-2006)
- Maciej GąbkaPLPolish researcher and biologist (hydrobiology, hydrobotany)
- Agnieszka Gąbka-BuszekPLresearcher (ORCID 0000-0002-2858-1957)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 607 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 607 | #5,195 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 554 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 554 | #5,856 |
Reference works 3
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gąbka mean, and where does it come from?
- sponge (invertebrate) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Gąbka?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɔmpka/ (IPA) for Polish.
- What are other forms of the name Gąbka?
- In the etymology graph, Губка is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Gąbka have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Gąbka, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gąbka most common?
- Gąbka is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 33 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gąbka?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,161 people named Gąbka in 2026, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C4%85bkaThe 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, “Gąbka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.