GAMEz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic from Gamo, a personal name of unexplained origin
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/gamɛs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
GAMEz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- HNHonduras≈1 in 849(inferred from the name graph)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 1K
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 1.1K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 364 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 849 (inferred from the name graph)
24,256 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Honduras, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Gámez in GT Guatemala.
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)
patronymic from Gamo, a personal name of unexplained origin.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
GAMEz 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 24,256 | 1 in 14K | 25K | GAMEz | 364 |
| VE Venezuela | #249 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | GAMEz | 58 |
| ES Spain | #311 | 13,816 | 1 in 3.6K | 14K | GAMEz | 149 |
| CO Colombia | #456 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 4K | 8 | GAMEz | 108 |
| HN Honduras | #110 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 849 | — | GAMEz | 26 |
| NI Nicaragua | #131 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | GAMEz | 27 |
| SV El Salvador | #175 | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | GAMEz | 36 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Gámez | 39 |
24,256 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling gamez. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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)
- Henri Gamezb. 1825FRFrench politician, mayor of Paillencourt (1825-1901)
- Henri Gamezb. 1946FRFrench politician, mayor of Fressies
- Leo Gamezb. 1963VEVenezuelan boxer
- Erin Gamezb. 1989USTexas politician
- Isabella Gamezb. 1999USFilipino-American pair skater
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 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 25K | #1,372 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 24K | #1,472 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 17K | #1,971 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 14K | #396 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 14K | #396 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 8 | #108 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 GAMEz mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from Gamo, a personal name of unexplained origin. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce GAMEz?
- A machine transcription gives /gamɛs/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does GAMEz have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 24 thousand people named GAMEz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled GAMEz.
- How common is the name GAMEz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 24,256 people named GAMEz in 2010, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is GAMEz compared with other names?
- In Honduras, GAMEz is the 110th most common surname of 30,461 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gamezThe 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, “GAMEz” — the 110th most common surname in Honduras. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.