Gabão

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Gabon (a country in Central Africa)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Gabão is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 28Kas Gabon(inferred from the name graph)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 110Kas Gabon
  • ESSpain1 in 1.8M

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 Gabão 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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,900 named Gabon, est.

Sources
130 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.8M (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GabonLatin(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gabao in PH Philippines, US United States, BR Brazil and 2 more and Gabon in FR France.

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)

Gabon (a country in Central Africa)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gabão 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.

Where Gabão is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines≈3,900 est.≈1 in 28K—Gabao29
ID Indonesia≈2,100 est.≈1 in 124K—Gabao5
FR France≈620 est.≈1 in 110K109Gabon130
NG Nigeria≈120 est.≈1 in 1.7Mlisted—2
US United States104as Gabon1 in 3.2M138Gabao36
BR Brazil871 in 2.4M87Gabao19
ES Spain281 in 1.8M28Gabao8

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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gabão is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gabao

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Gabão under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Gabão mean, and where does it come from?
Gabon (a country in Central Africa) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Gabão have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.9 thousand people named Gabon in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Gabão most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gabão is densest in Spain — about 1 in 1.8 million people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Gabão?
In Brazil, the national register counted 87 people named Gabão, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.

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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, “Gabão”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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