Gamm
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name for someone from Gamme, near Hamburg, or from a Germanic personal name based on Old High German gaman ‘joy’, ‘fun’, ‘game’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Gamm is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 130Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 534K
- CACanada≈1 in 540Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 184 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 132K (inferred from the name graph)
≈630 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)habitational name for someone from Gamme, near Hamburg, or from a Germanic personal name based on Old High German gaman ‘joy’, ‘fun’, ‘game’. Compare Gammel.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gamm 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 132K | — | Gamm | 67 |
| US United States | 623 | 1 in 534K | 641 | Gamm | 184 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 840K | — | Gamm | 36 |
| CA Canada | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 544K | — | Gamm | 22 |
| IT Italy | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Gamm | 2 |
| IE Ireland | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 143K | — | Gamm | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 367K | — | Gamm | 1 |
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. 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)Gamm is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Luxembourgish, range, gamut
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Heinrich Gammb. 1807PLprussian and Polish business dynasty
- Hans-Jochen Gammb. 1925DEGerman university teacher and non-fiction writer (1925-2011)
- Ruth Fuchsb. 1946DEnot in their usual nameGerman politician and athlete, Olympic champion (1946–2023)
- Gerhard Gammb. 1947DEGerman philosopher
- Gerald Gammb. 1964USAmerican political scientist and university professor
- Rüdiger Gammb. 1971DEGerman mental calculator
- Annett Gammb. 1977DEOlympic diver
- David Gammb. 1995DEGerman luger
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 641 | #37,363 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 623 | #35,993 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 618 | #34,630 |
| US United States | wru 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Gamm come from?
- habitational name for someone from Gamme, near Hamburg, or from a Germanic personal name based on Old High German gaman ‘joy’, ‘fun’, ‘game’. Compare Gammel. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Gamm mean?
- Recorded meaning: habitational name for someone from Gamme, near Hamburg, or from a Germanic personal name based on Old High German gaman ‘joy’, ‘fun’, ‘game’.
- In which country does Gamm have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 633 people named Gamm in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gamm.
- How common is the name Gamm?
- In the United States, the national register counted 623 people named Gamm in 2010, about 1 in 534 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, “Gamm”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.