Gamble

Gamble is the 1,069th most common surname in the United States, shared by 32,189 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 9,286.

By the numbers

People: 32,189
Rank: 1,069th
How common: 1 in 9,286
Per 100,000: 10.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Old Norse

From the Old Norse byname gamall (“old”), which was occasionally used in North England during the Middle Ages as a personal name.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 54.9%
Black, not Hispanic 35.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Gamble

Nathan Gamble (born 1998)American actor
Mason Gamble (born 1986)American former exactor and current marine biologist
James Sykes Gamble (1847–1925)British botanist
Fred Gamble (1932–2024)American racing driver
James Gamble (1803–1891)British co-founder of Procter & Gamble
Clarence Gamble (1881–1952)US tennis player
Robert J. Gamble (1851–1924)American politician
Sera Gamble (born 1983)American television producer and writer

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

Surnames like Gamble

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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.