Games Surname: Origin, Meaning & Coat of Arms

Your Games ancestor may well appear as Gámez in earlier records. Name scholars give the meaning as “Son of Gamo”.

Spelling and variants

Before spelling was fixed, Gámez was also written Games. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.

1,814 Americans were listed as Games in the 2010 census. 30% of them identified as Hispanic or Latino. Games sounds close to Gomes, so it can help to search both.

Arms associated with the name

Arms linked to Gámez and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

For the full story, order the Games surname pack.