Gamarra
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from any of several towns called Gamarra, in Araba, Basque Country
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡamara/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gamarra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country. In Paraguay it is the 69th most common surname.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 339(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 844
- UYUruguay1 in 1.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 196 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 339 (inferred from the name graph)
≈38,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from any of several towns called Gamarra, in Araba, Basque Country.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gamarra 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #120 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 844 | — | Gamarra | 112 |
| AR Argentina | #282 | 27,645 | 1 in 1.6K | 28K | Gamarra | 81 |
| PY Paraguay | #69 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 339 | — | Gamarra | 50 |
| CO Colombia | #634 | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | 6 | Gamarra | 69 |
| VE Venezuela | #632 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | Gamarra | 42 |
| UY Uruguay | #227 | 2,783 | 1 in 1.2K | 2.8K | Gamarra | 41 |
| BO Bolivia | #221 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 5K | — | Gamarra | 42 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Gamarra is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
bridão; bridoon
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In English, Agustin, president, Peru
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Basque, "Gamarra, cierta correa que sale de las cinchas y se afianza en el freno, es voz bascongada" Lar .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Agustín Gamarrab. 1785PEPresident of Peru (1785-1841)
- Pierre Gamarrab. 1919FRFrench writer (1919–2009)
- Ronald Gamarra Herrerab. 1958PEPeruvian lawyer
- Roberto Gamarrab. 1958ARArgentine footballer
- Carlos Gamarrab. 1971PYParaguayan footballer
- Concepción Gamarrab. 1974ESSpanish politician
- Roberto Gamarrab. 1981PYParaguayan footballer
- Rodolfo Gamarrab. 1988PYParaguayan footballer
- Celso Ortizb. 1989PYnot in their usual nameParaguayan association football player
- Alejandro Romero Gamarrab. 1995ARArgentine-Paraguayan footballer
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 27 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 28K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 2.8K | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 6 | #110 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Gamarra mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from any of several towns called Gamarra, in Araba, Basque Country. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gamarra?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡamara/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Gamarra have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 38 thousand people named Gamarra in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gamarra.
- How common is the name Gamarra?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 27,645 people named Gamarra, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Gamarra compared with other names?
- In Peru, Gamarra is the 120th most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gamarraThe 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, “Gamarra” — the 120th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.