Hamblin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From the Anglo-Norman personal name Hamblin or Hamlin, literally ‘little little Hamo’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈhæmbɫɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hamblin is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- CACanada
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the Anglo-Norman personal name Hamblin or Hamlin, literally ‘little little Hamo’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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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)
- Thomas S. Hamblinb. 1800USBritish actor (1800-1853)
- Jacob Hamblinb. 1819USAmerican diplomat (1819-1886)
- Hazel Adairb. 1920GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress, and screenwriter of television and radio (1920-2015)
- Charles Leonard Hamblinb. 1922AUAustralian philosopher and computer pioneer (1922–1985)
- John Hamblinb. 1935GBBritish-Australian actor and television presenter
- Ken Hamblinb. 1940USAmerican radio host
- William J. Hamblinb. 1954USProfessor of history at Brigham Young University
- James Hamblinb. 1982USAmerican journalist and physician
- Nikki Hamblinb. 1988NZNew Zealand middle-distance runner
- Ruth Hamblinb. 1994CACanadian basketball player (born 1994)
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 21 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.9K | #3,977 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.4K | #3,876 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.4K | #4,091 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 30 | #2,933 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 24 | #601 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 20 | #86,014 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 20 | #83,413 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #336,093 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #227,446 |
| BB Barbados | Barbados — Electoral register, overseas-voters slice | 2025 | 1 | #37 |
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 Hamblin mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Anglo-Norman personal name Hamblin or Hamlin, literally ‘little little Hamo’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Hamblin?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhæmbɫɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hamblin have the most bearers?
- Hamblin is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Hamblin?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hamblinThe 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, “Hamblin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.