Gambaro
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from a place in Piacenza called Gambara, from a personal name of Germanic origin (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɡambaɾo/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Gambaro is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 34K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 241K
- BRBrazil1 in 270K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 54 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Gambaro
- Spanish:/ɡambaɾo/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Portuguese:/ɡɐ̃bɐɾu/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Italian:/ɡambaro/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)habitational name from a place in Piacenza called Gambara, from a personal name of Germanic origin.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Gambaro is found
(measured from records)Gambaro 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 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 1 | Gambaro | 20 |
| BR Brazil | 783 | 1 in 270K | 783 | Gambaro | 54 |
| US United States | 295 | 1 in 1.1M | 295 | Gambaro | 43 |
| AR Argentina | 189 | 1 in 241K | 189 | Gambaro | 39 |
| FR France | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 461K | 20 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 99 | 1 in 34K | 99 | Gambaro | 8 |
| PR Puerto Rico | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Gambaro | 3 |
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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); 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)Gambaro is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, archaic and dialectal form of gambero
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, forma italiana de Gambarus
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)- Griselda Gambarob. 1928ARArgentine writer (born 1928)
- Enzo Gambarob. 1966ITItalian footballer
- Daniela Gambarob. 1976ITItalian screenwriter
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gambaro mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from a place in Piacenza called Gambara, from a personal name of Germanic origin. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gambaro?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /ɡambaɾo/; in Portuguese /ɡɐ̃bɐɾu/; in Italian /ɡambaro/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gambaro?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Gambaro in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gambaro. After it come Brazil, United States, Argentina and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Gambaro?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 783 people named Gambaro, about 1 in 270 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Gambaro?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gambaroThe 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, “Gambaro” — ranked 12652nd in Italy (ISTAT). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.