Gombos
surname · Latin script
Meaning: occupational name for a wool comber, from Hungarian gomb ‘comb’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɡomboʃ/(machine-generated) Hungarian · model-generated
Gombos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 80K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 101K
- CZCzechia1 in 141K
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.
- Hungary (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 165 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)occupational name for a wool comber, from Hungarian gomb ‘comb’.
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)Gombos 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 8K | — | Gombos | 2 |
| RO Romania | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Gombos | 8 |
| US United States | 640 | 1 in 520K | 640 | Gombos | 165 |
| DE Germany | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 474K | — | Gombos | 50 |
| IT Italy | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 393K | — | Gombos | 3 |
| CZ Czechia | 76 | 1 in 141K | 76 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 54 | 1 in 101K | 54 | — | 3 |
| HR Croatia | 53 | 1 in 80K | 53 | — | — |
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; MVČR — living population register 2017; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Imre Gombosb. 1791HUHungarian jurist, writer (1791–1840)
- Gombos Ferenc Albinb. 1873HUHungarian historian (1873-1938)
- Sándor Gombosb. 1895HUHungarian fencer (1895-1968)
- Gyula Gombosb. 1913HUHungarian literary historian and journalist
- Károly Gombosb. 1924HUHungarian art historian (1924-1987)
- Katalin Gombosb. 1929HUHungarian actress (1929–2012)
- Zsolt Gombosb. 1968HUOlympic wrestler
- Károly Gombosb. 1981HUHungarian biathelete
- Norbert Gombosb. 1990SKSlovak tennis player
- Rainer Gombosvisual effects supervisor
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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 640 | #35,203 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 637 | #37,540 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 598 | #35,585 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 54 | #24,684 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 20 | #53,322 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 20 | #15,378 |
| 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
- 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
- What does the name Gombos mean, and where does it come from?
- occupational name for a wool comber, from Hungarian gomb ‘comb’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gombos?
- In Hungarian /ɡomboʃ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Gombos have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Gombos in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gombos.
- How common is the name Gombos?
- In the United States, the national register counted 640 people named Gombos in 2010, about 1 in 520 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gombosThe 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, “Gombos”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.