Tracing the Gambini Family Name

Anyone researching Gambini should also look under Gambino. At root, the name means “Little leg”. The change of ending between Gambino and Gambini reflects the Italian habit of naming a family in the plural or the singular. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Gambini with 252 bearers, at rank 76,275. French civil records give 848 births under the name Gambini from 1891 to 2000, peaking in 1961–1970. Births under the name grew in the later decades.

Arms linked to Gambino and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Want more than a summary? See the Gambini family name pack.