Jambon
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A square puff pastry containing ham and cheese
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʒɑ̃bɔ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jambon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 40K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 118K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 840K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 199 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A square puff pastry containing ham and cheese.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jambon 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 40K | 208 | Jambon | 199 |
| US United States | 163 | 1 in 2M | 182 | Jambon | 41 |
| BE Belgium | 99 | 1 in 118K | 99 | Jambon | 12 |
| CH Switzerland | 10 | 1 in 840K | 10 | Jambon | 4 |
| ES Spain | 6 | 1 in 8.3M | 6 | Jambon | 2 |
| CA Canada | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 7M | — | Jambon | 6 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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)
Jambon 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 Romanian, JAMBÓN, jamboane, s. n. Produs alimentar obținut din pulpă de porc preparată prin sărare și afumare sau fierbere cu mijloace tehnice speciale; șuncă.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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)
- Philibert Jambonb. 1741FRartist from France
- Marcel Jambonb. 1848FRDecorator of theaters
- Louis Jambonb. 1877FRFrench Brigadier-General (1877–1967)
- Christian Jambonb. 1952FRFrench politician
- Jan Jambonb. 1960BEBelgian politician
- Kirby Jambonb. 1962USAmerican actor
- Samy JambonFRresearcher
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 12 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 330 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 300 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 278 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 276 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 251 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 240 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 231 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 220 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 208 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 196 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 182 | #104,723 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 172 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Jambon mean, and where does it come from?
- A square puff pastry containing ham and cheese. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Jambon?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒɑ̃bɔ̃/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Jambon have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Jambon in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jambon.
- How common is the name Jambon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 163 people named Jambon in 2010, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jambonThe 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, “Jambon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.