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gamble Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from the Old Norse byname Gamall meaning ‘old’, which was occasionally used in North England during the Middle Ages as a personal name.
  2. Altered spelling of German Gambel.

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Distribution of gamble Families in the US in 1920
Number of gamble families
 213-424
 72-212
 1-71
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