Chambi
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tʃambi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chambi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bolivia than in any other country, where it is the 23rd most common surname.
- BOBolivia≈1 in 332(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.5K
- ARArgentina1 in 7.6K
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.
- Bolivia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 332 (inferred from the name graph)
≈35,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bolivia, est.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chambi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BO Bolivia | #23 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 332 | — | Chambi | 45 |
| PE Peru | #223 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Chambi | 61 |
| AR Argentina | #996 | 6,003 | 1 in 7.6K | 6K | Chambi | 48 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Chambi | 5 |
| BR Brazil | — | 534 | 1 in 396K | 534 | Chambi | 33 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Chambi | 32 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
- Martín Chambib. 1891PEPeruvian photographer (1891–1973)
- Julia Chambi Lópezb. 1919PEPeruvian photographer, visual artist, and cultural manager
- Manuel Chambib. 1924PEPeruvian filmmaker
- Cristóbal Villasante Chambib. 1929PEPeruvian politician
- Edgar Paryb. 1961BOnot in their usual nameBolivian politician
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 17 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 534 | #16,063 |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Chambi?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃambi/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Chambi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 35 thousand people named Chambi in Bolivia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chambi.
- How common is the name Chambi?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 6,003 people named Chambi, about 1 in 7.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Chambi compared with other names?
- In Bolivia, Chambi is the 23rd most common surname of 29,432 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chambi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chambiThe 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, “Chambi” — the 23rd most common surname in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.