Given name & surname
Gamel
“mess tin”
Gamel is a surname with more than one origin. It is used in English and French.
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a French surname, it goes back to a word meaning “mess tin.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
As a French surname, it comes from Old French gamel.
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1967. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gamel through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 15
- 15 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1967
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1981. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 112 as a first name in 2020; 1,241 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Gamel’s family of names
In English usage, Gamel as a surname has a related form in GAMMEL.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Gamel
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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