Gambín
surname · Latin script
Gambín is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variante di Gamba.
- ESSpain1 in 22K(measured from records)
- MTMalta≈1 in 31K
- FRFrance≈1 in 102K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 93 (measured from records)
- 1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
2,249 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gambin in ES Spain, CO Colombia, BR Brazil and 3 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)
Variante di Gamba
Sources 2
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gambín 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 2,249 | 1 in 22K | 2.2K | Gambin | 93 |
| FR France | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 102K | 79 | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | — | 515 | 1 in 411K | 515 | Gambin | 3 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 191K | listed | Gambin | 33 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 216K | — | Gambin | 27 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 27 | 1 in 125K | 27 | Gambin | 6 |
| MT Malta | #275 | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Gambin | 42 |
2,249 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pedro Gambínb. 1886ESSpanish Roman Catholic priest
- Tomás Arrietab. 1912COnot in their usual nameColombian baseball player (1912-1946)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Gambín mean, and where does it come from?
- Variante di Gamba Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- In which country does Gambín have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Gambín, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gambin.
- Where is Gambín most common?
- Gambín is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 22 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gambín?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,249 people named Gambín, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
- How common is Gambín compared with other names?
- In Malta, Gambín is the 275th most common surname of 5,132 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gamb%C3%ADnThe 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, “Gambín” — the 275th most common surname in Malta. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.