Gumm
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Gumm is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: probably a variant of Gumme, from a Frisian personal name or a short form of a Germanic personal name such as Gundemar {gund ‘battle’ -I- mar, meri ‘famous’).
- USUnited States1 in 118K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 129K
- TNTunisia≈1 in 72K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 251 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 72K (inferred from the name graph)
2,812 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Tunisia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
probably a variant of Gumme, from a Frisian personal name or a short form of a Germanic personal name such as Gundemar {gund ‘battle’ -I- mar, meri ‘famous’).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gumm 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 | 2,812 | 1 in 118K | 3.2K | Gumm | 251 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 129K | — | Gumm | 68 |
| DE Germany | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 173K | — | Gumm | 49 |
| CA Canada | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 157K | — | Gumm | 15 |
| IT Italy | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 310K | — | Gumm | 2 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Gumm | 2 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 121K | — | Gumm | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Gumm | 4 |
2,812 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 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)
Gumm 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.
In English, from a nickname or byname from Middle English gome. Old English guma ‘man’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, Different form of Gomme.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In Luxembourgish, palate
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)
- Agnes Maria Bernardb. 1819not in their usual name(1819-1856)
- Harry Von Tilzerb. 1872USnot in their usual nameAmerican composer (1872–1946)
- Albert Von Tilzerb. 1878USnot in their usual nameAmerican songwriter
- Frank Gummb. 188620 Mar 1886 - 17 Nov 1935
- Charles F. Gumm Jr.b. 1920USAmerican flying ace (1920–1944)
- Judy Garlandb. 1922USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress, singer, dancer and vaudevillian (1922–1969)
- Heinz-Peter Gummb. 1951DEPh.D. Technische Universität Darmstadt 1977
- James GummAUAustralian pioneer
- Zoë GummGBPh.D. City, University of London 2014
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.2K | #9,401 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.8K | #11,241 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.7K | #11,219 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Gumm mean, and where does it come from?
- probably a variant of Gumme, from a Frisian personal name or a short form of a Germanic personal name such as Gundemar {gund ‘battle’ -I- mar, meri ‘famous’). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Gumm have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.8 thousand people named Gumm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gumm.
- How common is the name Gumm?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,812 people named Gumm in 2010, about 1 in 118 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, “Gumm”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.