Chamba
surname · Latin script
Meaning: fluke
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/t͡ʃamba/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chamba is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country.
- ECEcuador1 in 842(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 10K
- ESSpain1 in 58K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Chamba itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 65 (measured from records)
- 1 in 842 (inferred from the name graph)
20,073 people, 2024
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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)
fluke
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chamba 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.
20,073 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Taras Shambab. 1938RUnot in their usual namepolitician (1938–2020)
- Sergei Shambab. 1951GEnot in their usual namePrime Minister of Abkhazia
- Gilberto Chambab. 1963ECEcuadorian serial killer
- Jessica Chambab. 1981FRFrench activist
- Miguel A. MenesesITnot in their usual namechemical engineer
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)
Attested in 21 sources across 12 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Chamba mean, and where does it come from?
- fluke Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Chamba?
- A machine transcription gives /t͡ʃamba/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Chamba have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 20 thousand people named Chamba, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chamba.
- Where is Chamba most common?
- Chamba is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 842 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Chamba?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 20,073 people named Chamba in 2024, about 1 in 842 residents.
- How common is Chamba compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Chamba is the 222nd most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chambaThe 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, “Chamba” — the 222nd most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.