Gumba
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Gumba is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In English, recorded as Alternative form of goombah.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 25K(inferred from the name graph)
- KEKenya≈1 in 74K
- TZTanzania≈1 in 118K
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)
- Sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Alternative form of goombah.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Gumba is read(measured from records)
Gumba is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English40%
Alternative form of goombah.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Swahili31%
sterile man
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
thumb
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish17%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Gumba in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gumba 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 | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Gumba | 38 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 126K | — | Gumba | 11 |
| KE Kenya | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Gumba | 16 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 118K | — | Gumba | 9 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 676K | — | Gumba | 13 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 416K | — | Gumba | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 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: 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Gumba 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 pi, a bush, a thicket
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In klw, large water jar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Ganda, barren animal
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gumba mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative form of goombah. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Gumba have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.3 thousand people named Gumba in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gumba.
- How common is the name Gumba?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 3 people named Gumba in 2024, about 1 in 2.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Gumba?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gumbaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Gumba”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.