Gamelin

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from pet form of any of the compound personal names formed with gamal, related to Old Norse gamall

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ˈɡæmɪɫɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Gamelin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 815K(measured from records)
  • CZCzechia1 in 3.6M
  • BEBelgium1 in 12M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

408 people, 2010

Sources
19 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 815K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from pet form of any of the compound personal names formed with gamal, related to Old Norse gamall. Old German gamel ‘old’, ‘aged’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gamelin 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.

Where Gamelin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States4081 in 815K433Gamelin19
CZ Czechia31 in 3.6M3——
BE Belgium11 in 12M1——
AR Argentina———Gamelin9
CA Canada———Gamelin14
PE Peru———Gamelin13
CU Cuba———Gamelin1

408 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gamelin is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gamelín

30 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gamelin is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Possibly a respelling of German Gammelin, a habitational name from a place in Mecklenburg called Gammelin. A family of this name from Blois was in Trois Rivieres, Quebec, by 1661.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In French, diminutive of Gamel

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, dérivé du nom germanique Gamelo, de gamal « vieux, âgé ».

    as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

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)

1700180019002000Jacques Gamelin, b. 1738Émilie Gamelin, b. 1800Guillaume Gamelin Gaucher, b. 1810Maurice Gamelin, b. 1872Theodore Gamelin, b. 1939Fabrice Gamelin, b. 1966Alexander Gamelin, b. 1993

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)

FormalDear Gamelin,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 13 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Gamelin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020433#51,869
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010408#51,066
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000378#51,680
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—3#143,170
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—3#22,971
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20081#179,352
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Gamelin come from?
from pet form of any of the compound personal names formed with gamal, related to Old Norse gamall. Old German gamel ‘old’, ‘aged’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Gamelin?
A machine transcription gives /ˈɡæmɪɫɪn/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Gamelin mean?
Recorded meaning: from pet form of any of the compound personal names formed with gamal, related to Old Norse gamall.
In which country does Gamelin have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 408 people named Gamelin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gamelin.
Where is Gamelin most common?
Gamelin is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 815 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Gamelin?
In the United States, the national register counted 408 people named Gamelin in 2010, about 1 in 815 thousand residents.

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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, “Gamelin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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