Gable
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Perhaps ‘person from a place named Gable’, usually a gable-shaped hill (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈɡeɪ.bəl/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Gable is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 9,779 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- IEIreland≈1 in 29Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 34K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 39K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 384 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.2K (inferred from the name graph)
9,779 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Åland Islands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Gable
- English:/ˈɡeɪ.bəl/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Perhaps ‘person from a place named Gable’, usually a gable-shaped hill.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Gable is found
(measured from records)Gable 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 | 9,779 | 1 in 34K | 9.8K | Gable | 384 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 323 | Gable | 97 |
| CA Canada | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Gable | 83 |
| IN India | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | — | Gable | 19 |
| PH Philippines | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 292K | — | Gable | 14 |
| IE Ireland | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Gable | 3 |
| SG Singapore | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Gable | 3 |
| AX Åland Islands | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | Gable | 1 |
9,779 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)Gable 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.
of uncertain origin, perhaps a habitational name from a minor place named with Old Norse gafl ‘gable’, which was applied to a triangular-shaped hill. The mountain called Great Gable in Cumbria is named in this way.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Possibly an altered spelling of German Gobel (see Goebel).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Americanized spelling of German and Jewish Gabel.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, The triangular area at the peak of an external wall adjacent to, and terminating, two sloped roof surfaces (pitches).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, French form of Gabriel; little Gabriel.
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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)- Clark Gableb. 1901USAmerican actor (1901–1960)
- June Gableb. 1945USAmerican actress
- Dan Gableb. 1948USAmerican wrestler and coach (born 1948)
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)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gable mean, and where does it come from?
- Perhaps ‘person from a place named Gable’, usually a gable-shaped hill. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Gable?
- In English /ˈɡeɪ.bəl/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gable?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 9.8 thousand people named Gable, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gable. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, India and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Gable?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,779 people named Gable in 2010, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gableThe 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, “Gable” — ranked 3466th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.