Ombre
org · Latin script
Meaning, in French: shade, shadow
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
Ombre is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Argentina.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 2 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)A Spanish card game, usually played by three people. It involves forty cards, omitting the ranks of 8, 9 and 10.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ombre is read
(measured from records)Ombre is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French100%
shade, shadow
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish23%
obsolete spelling of hombre
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English6.8%
A Spanish card game, usually played by three people. It involves forty cards, omitting the ranks of 8, 9 and 10.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ombre counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | — | 18 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 9 | — | 2 |
| FR France | — | 3 | — | 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); 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)Ombre 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 Aragonese, superseded spelling of hombre (“man”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nrm, shadow (poorly lit area)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fur, shadow
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)- Ellen Ombreb. 1948NLDutch writer
- Walter Ombreb. 1951NLDutch basketball 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 18 | — |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 9 | #64,836 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 3 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Ombre come from?
- A Spanish card game, usually played by three people. It involves forty cards, omitting the ranks of 8, 9 and 10. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Ombre mean?
- In French, shade, shadow
- In which country does Ombre have the most bearers?
- Ombre is most frequently recorded in Argentina.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ombreThe 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, “Ombre”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.