Golomb
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ornamental name from Polish gol^b ‘dove’ (Latin columba) (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Golomb is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. Golomb is also written גולומב in Hebrew.
- PLPoland1 in 290K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 369K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 390Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Golomb itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 204 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 202K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Golomb in other scripts: Hebrew
(measured from records)Locally spelled גולומב in IL Israel, PL Poland, DE Germany.
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)ornamental name from Polish gol^b ‘dove’ (Latin columba).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Golomb is found
(measured from records)Golomb 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 202K | — | Golomb | 1 |
| US United States | 558 | 1 in 596K | 558 | Golomb | 204 |
| IL Israel | 388as גולומב | 1 in 22K | 388 | גולומב | 39 |
| DE Germany | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 248K | — | גולומב | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 454K | — | Golomb | 28 |
| PL Poland | 132 | 1 in 290K | 67 | גולומב | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 220K | — | Golomb | 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; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)Golomb 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 Polish, variant of Gotpb (see Golab).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)- Abraham Golombb. 1888MXeducator
- Solomon Golombb. 1932USAmerican mathematician (1932–2016)
- David Golombb. 1933ILIsraeli politician
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 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Golomb mean, and where does it come from?
- ornamental name from Polish gol^b ‘dove’ (Latin columba). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Golomb?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Golomb in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled golomb. After it come United States, Israel, Germany and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Golomb?
- In the United States, the national register counted 558 people named Golomb in 2010, about 1 in 596 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/golombThe 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, “Golomb”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.