Gemmill
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Scottish variant of Gamble (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Gemmill is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 1,319 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Gemmill is also written Геммилл in Cyrillic.
- USUnited States1 in 252K(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 252K (inferred from the name graph)
1,319 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Gemmill in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)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)Scottish variant of Gamble.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Gemmill is found
(measured from records)Gemmill 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 | 1,319 | 1 in 252K | 1.3K | Gemmill | 5 |
1,319 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. 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)Gemmill is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
variant of Gamble.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)- Archie Gemmillb. 1947GBScottish association football player and manager (born 1947)
- Tristan Gemmillb. 1967GBEnglish actor
- Scot Gemmillb. 1971GBScottish footballer (born 1971)
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gemmill mean, and where does it come from?
- Scottish variant of Gamble. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Gemmill have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Gemmill, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gemmill.
- Where is Gemmill most common?
- Gemmill is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 252 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gemmill?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,319 people named Gemmill in 2010, about 1 in 252 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gemmillThe 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, “Gemmill” — ranked 20124th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.