Gamelin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from pet form of any of the compound personal names formed with gamal, related to Old Norse gamall (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Gamelin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 408 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- USUnited States1 in 815K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 3.6M
- BEBelgium1 in 12M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 815K (inferred from the name graph)
408 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from pet form of any of the compound personal names formed with gamal, related to Old Norse gamall. Old German gamel ‘old’, ‘aged’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Gamelin is found
(measured from records)Gamelin 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.
408 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; MVČR — living population register 2017; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Gamelin 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.
In French, Possibly a respelling of German Gammelin, a habitational name from a place in Mecklenburg called Gammelin. A family of this name from Blois was in Trois Rivieres, Quebec, by 1661.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In French, diminutive of Gamel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, dérivé du nom germanique Gamelo, de gamal « vieux, âgé ».
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
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)- Jacques Gamelinb. 1738FRFrench painter (1738-1803)
- Maurice Gamelinb. 1872FRFrench military officer (1872–1958)
- Alexander Gamelinb. 1993USamerican-born South Korean ice dancer
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Gamelin come from?
- from pet form of any of the compound personal names formed with gamal, related to Old Norse gamall. Old German gamel ‘old’, ‘aged’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Gamelin mean?
- Recorded meaning: from pet form of any of the compound personal names formed with gamal, related to Old Norse gamall.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gamelin?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 408 people named Gamelin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gamelin. After it come Czechia and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Gamelin most common?
- Gamelin is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 815 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gamelin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 408 people named Gamelin in 2010, about 1 in 815 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gamelinThe 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, “Gamelin” — ranked 51066th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.