GaMo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: runner, from Sp. gamo fallow deer (LL gammus, of uncer¬ tain origin), or perhaps a metonymic occupational name for the warden of a deer park (see Gamero) (A dictionary of surnames)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɡamo/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
GaMo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 32K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 47K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 300Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 98 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce GaMo
- Spanish:/ɡamo/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Swahili:/ɠamo/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)runner, from Sp. gamo fallow deer (LL gammus, of uncer¬ tain origin), or perhaps a metonymic occupational name for the warden of a deer park (see Gamero). Patr.: Gamez. Galvin 1. Irish: Anglicized form of Gael. 6 Gealbhain
Cited for this meaning 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname GaMo is found
(measured from records)GaMo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | GaMo | 44 |
| ES Spain | 1,070 | 1 in 47K | 1.1K | GaMo | 93 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 297K | — | GaMo | 21 |
| BR Brazil | 303 | 1 in 699K | 303 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 134 | 1 in 2.5M | 177 | GaMo | 98 |
| CO Colombia | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 772K | — | GaMo | 12 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)GaMo is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, runner, from Sp. gamo fallow deer (LL gammiis, of uncer¬ tain origin), or perhaps a metonymic occupational name for the warden of a deer park (see Gamero). Gapeev see Agapov
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In Portuguese, fallow deer (Dama dama, a ruminant mammal)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, fallow deer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, gamut, scale (series of notes spanning an octave)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, vocative singular of gama
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)- Gamō Ujisatob. 1556JPdaimyo
- Gamō Hideyukib. 1583JPdaimyo of the Azuchi-Momoyama to Edo period. lord of Aizu domain
- Mayu Gamōb. 1982JPactress
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name GaMo come from?
- runner, from Sp. gamo fallow deer (LL gammus, of uncer¬ tain origin), or perhaps a metonymic occupational name for the warden of a deer park (see Gamero). Patr.: Gamez. Galvin 1. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- What are other forms of the name GaMo?
- In the etymology graph, Gama is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce GaMo?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /ɡamo/; in Swahili /ɠamo/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name GaMo mean?
- Recorded meaning: runner, from Sp. gamo fallow deer (LL gammus, of uncer¬ tain origin), or perhaps a metonymic occupational name for the warden of a deer park (see Gamero).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname GaMo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named GaMo in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled GaMo. After it come Spain, Indonesia, Brazil and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name GaMo?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,070 people named GaMo, about 1 in 47 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gamoThe 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, “GaMo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.