Gobbo
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A goblin
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ɡubbu/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Gobbo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 11Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 42K
- BRBrazil1 in 52K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 108 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)short form, probably from Jacobus; hard to separate from other short forms
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Gobbo is read
(measured from records)Gobbo is one spelling over 5 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.
- Portuguese40%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Gobbo in Portuguese.
- Spanish15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Gobbo in Spanish.
- English15%
A goblin.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Gobbo in French.
- Italian9.5%
hunchbacked
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
do lat. gibbus, “corcunda”; também associado a pessoa rica no latim medieval
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Gobbo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Gobbo | 45 |
| BR Brazil | 4,083 | 1 in 52K | 4.1K | Gobbo | 108 |
| FR France | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 108K | 76 | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 301 | 1 in 151K | 301 | Gobbo | 38 |
| US United States | 227 | 1 in 1.5M | 230 | Gobbo | 61 |
| CH Switzerland | 122 | 1 in 69K | 122 | Gobbo | 7 |
| UY Uruguay | 80 | 1 in 42K | 80 | Gobbo | 16 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the xinhua-italian-manual register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Gobbo 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.
In German, short form, probably from Jacobus; hard to separate from other short forms
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)- Elli Parvob. 1914ITnot in their usual nameItalian actress (1915-2010)
- James Gobbob. 1931AUAustralian judge and Governor of Victoria (1931–2021)
- Fabio Gobbob. 1947ITItalian economist and politician (1947–2008)
- Gian Paolo Gobbob. 1949ITItalian politician
- Renzo Gobbob. 1961ITfootballer and manager
- Nicola Gobbob. 1973AUAustralian lawyer and police informer
- Federico Gobbob. 1974ITItalian interlinguist, esperantist, and professor
- Tessa Gobbob. 1990USAmerican rower
- Colton Gobbob. 2000CACanadian actor
- Elena GobboSIresearcher
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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 4.1K | #2,648 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 301 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 230 | #87,019 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 227 | #82,908 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 223 | #79,394 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 133 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 122 | #9,454 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 109 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 86 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 80 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 77 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 76 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- Where does the name Gobbo come from?
- short form, probably from Jacobus; hard to separate from other short forms Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Gobbo?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /ɡubbu/; in Spanish /xoβbo/; in English /ˈɡɑboʊ/ (Wiktionary); in Italian /ɡɔbbo/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Gobbo mean?
- In English, A goblin.
- In which country does Gobbo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.5 thousand people named Gobbo in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gobbo.
- How common is the name Gobbo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 4,083 people named Gobbo, about 1 in 52 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gobboThe 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, “Gobbo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.