Gama

At the 2020 census, 4,017 Americans bore the surname Gama — 7,925th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 74,400.

By the numbers

People: 4,017
Rank: 7,925th
How common: 1 in 74,400
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

From Portuguese Gama.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Gama described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 83.2%
White, not Hispanic 11.9%
Black, not Hispanic 2.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.05%

Notable people called Gama

Vasco da Gama (1469–1525)Portuguese explorer (c. 1460s – 1524)
Sara Gama (born 1989)Italian footballer
Bruno Gama (born 1987)Portuguese footballer
The Great Gama (1878–1960)Indian and Pakistani professional wrestler
Cristóvão da Gama (1516–1542)Portuguese soldier in Ethiopia
Luiz Gama (1830–1882)Brazilian lawyer, poet, abolitionist and journalist
Armando Gama (1954–2022)Portuguese singer
Jaime Gama (born 1947)Portuguese politician

People named Gama with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.