Gambón
surname · Latin script
Gambón is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A different form of Gammon.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 84K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 240Kfew records
- NLNetherlands1 in 720K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 117 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈470 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Réunion, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gambon in US United States, PH Philippines, CH Switzerland and 4 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)A different form of Gammon.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Gambón is found
(measured from records)Gambón 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 245K | — | Gambon | 19 |
| US United States | — | 185 | 1 in 1.8M | 224 | Gambon | 117 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | — | Gambon | 1 |
| RE Réunion | #368 | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | — | Gambon | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 100 | 1 in 84K | 100 | Gambon | 12 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 602K | — | Gambon | 4 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Gambon | 1 |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gambón mean, and where does it come from?
- A different form of Gammon. Recorded by Wiktionary and Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gambón?
- Mondonomo estimates about 474 people named Gambón in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gambon. After it come United States, Indonesia, Réunion and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Gambón?
- In the United States, the national register counted 185 people named Gambón in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
- How common is Gambón compared with other names?
- In Réunion, Gambón is the 368th most common surname of 3,012 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gambón?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gamb%C3%B3nThe 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, “Gambón” — the 368th most common surname in Réunion. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.