Gamboa

Gamboa is the 1,792nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 19,553 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 15,300.

By the numbers

People: 19,553
Rank: 1,792nd
How common: 1 in 15,300
Per 100,000: 6.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish, from Basque

from Basque Ganboa.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 82.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 7.9%
White, not Hispanic 6.8%
Black, not Hispanic 1.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Gamboa

Cristian Gamboa (born 1984)Costa Rican association football player
Ismael Montes Gamboa (1861–1933)President of Bolivia

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

Surnames like Gamboa

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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.