Gumbel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from OFr Gombaut, OG Gundbald ‘battle-bold’; first attested Durandus Gumboldus 1148 Winton (Hampshire)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɡəmbəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gumbel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 200K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M
- CNChina≈1 in 342K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 143 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 200K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
from OFr Gombaut, OG Gundbald ‘battle-bold’; first attested Durandus Gumboldus 1148 Winton (Hampshire)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gumbel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 342K | — | Gumbel | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 200K | — | Gumbel | 51 |
| US United States | 292 | 1 in 1.1M | 314 | Gumbel | 143 |
| FR France | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | 5 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | listed | Gumbel | 20 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 859K | — | Gumbel | 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; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Gumbel 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.
from the Germanic personal name Gumbald, composed of the elements gund ‘battle’ -l- bald ‘bold’, ‘brave’; it was taken to Britain from France by the Normans.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, Bryant, US TV broadcaster
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, bold, brave. Dim.: Gumbley (W Midlands).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
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 Gumbelb. 1852DEGerman banker (1852–1930)
- Johanna Brauerb. 1872CZnot in their usual nameholocaust victim, b. 1872-06-04
- Siegfried Gumbelb. 1874DEGerman lawyer and politician (1874-1942)
- Emil Julius Gumbelb. 1891USGerman mathematician and statistician (1891–1966)
- Hermann Gumbelb. 1901DEGerman philologist and university lecturer
- Karl Gumbelb. 1909DEGerman jurist (1909-1984)
- Greg Gumbelb. 1946USAmerican sportscaster (1946–2024)
- Bryant Gumbelb. 1948USAmerican television journalist and sportscaster
- Nicky Gumbelb. 1955GBBritish priest
- Emma Gumbelb. 2004DEGerman association football player
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)
Attested in 13 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 314 | #67,683 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 292 | #67,519 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 286 | #64,934 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 4 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Gumbel mean, and where does it come from?
- from OFr Gombaut, OG Gundbald ‘battle-bold’; first attested Durandus Gumboldus 1148 Winton (Hampshire) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Gumbel?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡəmbəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gumbel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.1 thousand people named Gumbel in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gumbel.
- How common is the name Gumbel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 292 people named Gumbel in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gumbelThe 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, “Gumbel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.