Gam
loc · Latin script
Meaning: from a lost Garn in Westbury on Severn, Gloucestershire; first attested Hugh de Gerne 1221 AssGl (A Dictionary of English Surnames)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Gam is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Gam is also written กรรม in Thai.
- DKDenmark1 in 26K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 290K
- NONorway1 in 547K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 77 (measured from records)
- 1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈230 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Gam in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)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)from a lost Garn in Westbury on Severn, Gloucestershire; first attested Hugh de Gerne 1221 AssGl
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Gam is found
(measured from records)Gam 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 | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 294K | 13 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 223 | 1 in 26K | 223 | — | — |
| US United States | 215 | 1 in 1.5M | 278 | — | 51 |
| IN India | 213 | 1 in 6.2M | 213 | — | 9 |
| BR Brazil | 135 | 1 in 1.6M | 135 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 10 | 1 in 547K | 10 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 7 | 1 in 1.2M | 7 | — | — |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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)Gam 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 Welsh, Variant of Cam; earliest citation not given on this page.
as a nameWelsh Surnames
In German, from ahd. gaman/gamel 'joy, play'; also from ahd. g'ambar 'capable'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In dag, to be in excess. (gam chori gam sariya V. be more than necessary KO)
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
In Russian, Gam Skrypitsyn, rider in the Tsar's service. c1614.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Indonesian, acronym of Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (“Free Aceh Movement”), a separatist movement demanding for the independence of Aceh from Indonesia
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)- Rita Gamb. 1927USAmerican actress (1927–2016)
- Ha Jinb. 1956CNnot in their usual nameauthor and poet
- Alex Kamb. 1995NZnot in their usual nameSouth Korean figure skater
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)33 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gam mean, and where does it come from?
- from a lost Garn in Westbury on Severn, Gloucestershire; first attested Hugh de Gerne 1221 AssGl Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gam?
- Mondonomo estimates about 234 people named Gam in France, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Denmark, United States, India and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Gam most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gam is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 26 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gam?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 223 people named Gam, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Gam?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gamThe 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, “Gam”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.