Gamboa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: topographic name composed of the elements gain ‘peak’, ‘summit’ -i- boa ‘rounded’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡamboa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gamboa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Costa Rica it is the 51st most common surname.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 195(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.4K
- COColombia≈1 in 1.5K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 348 (measured from records)
- 1 in 195 (inferred from the name graph)
≈45,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
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)
topographic name composed of the elements gain ‘peak’, ‘summit’ -i- boa ‘rounded’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gamboa 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 | #237 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Gamboa | 90 |
| CO Colombia | #238 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 18 | Gamboa | 150 |
| CR Costa Rica | #51 | 26,106 | 1 in 195 | 26K | Gamboa | 112 |
| PE Peru | #235 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Gamboa | 85 |
| US United States | — | 19,577 | 1 in 17K | 20K | Gamboa | 348 |
| VE Venezuela | #281 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Gamboa | 63 |
| CL Chile | #428 | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Gamboa | 87 |
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: TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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)
Gamboa 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 Spanish, Ganboa (a mountain in Gipuzkoa, Spain)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
marmelo; quince
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, 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)
- Ismael Montes Gamboab. 1861BOPresident of Bolivia (1861–1933)
- Federico Gamboab. 1864MXMexican author and diplomat (1864-1939)
- Delio Gamboab. 1936COColombian footballer (1936-2018)
- Alejandro Gamboab. 1954MXMexican film director
- Juan Pablo Gamboab. 1966COColombian músico
- Fernando Gamboab. 1970ARArgentine footballer and coach
- Sandra Echeverríab. 1984MXnot in their usual nameMexican actress and singer
- Keylor Navasb. 1986CRnot in their usual nameCosta Rican association football player
- Ludovic Gamboab. 1986FRFrench and Portuguese footballer
- Cristian Gamboab. 1989CRCosta Rican footballer
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 31 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 26K | #80 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 20K | #1,829 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 20K | #1,792 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 15K | #2,205 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 18 | #98 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Gamboa mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name composed of the elements gain ‘peak’, ‘summit’ -i- boa ‘rounded’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gamboa?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡamboa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Gamboa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 45 thousand people named Gamboa in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gamboa.
- Where is Gamboa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gamboa is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 195 people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gamboa?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 26,106 people named Gamboa, about 1 in 195 residents.
- How common is Gamboa compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Gamboa is the 237th most common surname of 876,464 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/gamboaThe 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, “Gamboa” — the 237th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.