Gaume
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ɡom/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gaume is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.7M(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 247K
- BEBelgium1 in 781K
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)
- Record sources
- 108 (measured from records)
- 1 in 247K (inferred from the name graph)
192 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)Gaume 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 192 | 1 in 1.7M | 200 | Gaume | 108 |
| CH Switzerland | 34 | 1 in 247K | 34 | Gaume | 3 |
| ES Spain | 20 | 1 in 2.5M | 20 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 15 | 1 in 781K | 15 | — | 1 |
| IN India | 8 | 1 in 166M | 8 | — | 1 |
192 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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)Gaume is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, taste (aesthetic and cultural discernment, the sense of what is aesthetically or culturally better)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gsw, to guard, watch, herd
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Skaistuma izpratne; spēja uztvert un vērtēt skaistumu
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, tas, ko (kāds) uzskata par vēlamu, piemērotu
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Jean-Joseph Gaumeb. 1802FRFrench theologian (1802-1879)
- Mélanie Gaumeb. 1806FRFrench painter and writer
- Yves Gaumeb. 1948FRFrench politician
- Luis Álvarez-Gauméb. 1955ESSpanish physicist
- Dallas Gaumeb. 1963CACanadian ice hockey player
- Emmanuelle Gaumeb. 1968FRFrench journalist, radio and television presenter and producer
- E. Gaumeb. 1968FRFrench researcher
- Nicolas Gaumeb. 1971FRFrench businessman, video games creator, Co-founder & Executive Chairman, Orbite
- Bertrand Gaumeb. 1974FRFrench official
- Johan Gaumeb. 1985FRMechanical engineer and associate professor at ETH Zurich
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 200 | #97,359 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 192 | #95,115 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 167 | #100,194 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 34 | #24,910 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 20 | #84,059 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 20 | #83,413 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 15 | #57,365 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 8 | #136,729 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- How do you pronounce Gaume?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡom/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Gaume have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 192 people named Gaume, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gaume.
- Where is Gaume most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gaume is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 247 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gaume?
- In the United States, the national register counted 192 people named Gaume in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Gaume?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gaumeThe 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, “Gaume”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.