Gómez
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Gómez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 5th most common surname.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 73(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 79
- ESSpain1 in 101
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- #53 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 554 (measured from records)
- 1 in 51 (inferred from the name graph)
576,647 people
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gomez in US United States, AR Argentina, ES Spain and 3 more and Gòmez in UY Uruguay.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a surname originating as a patronymic
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gómez counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #5 | 576,647 | 1 in 79 | 577K | Gomez | 193 |
| ES Spain | #9 | 496,272 | 1 in 101 | 496K | Gomez | 301 |
| CO Colombia | #2 | ≈470,000 est. | ≈1 in 104 | 5.8K | Gomez | 258 |
| US United States | #57 | 365,655 | 1 in 910 | 368K | Gomez | 554 |
| VE Venezuela | #13 | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 124 | 1.6K | Gomez | 139 |
| CR Costa Rica | #242 | 69,770 | 1 in 73 | 70K | Gómez | 137 |
| PY Paraguay | #11 | ≈70,000 est. | ≈1 in 103 | — | Gomez | 90 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 66,247 | 1 in 51 | 66K | Gòmez | 113 |
576,647 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RNEC — Nombres más registrados (newborn name statistics); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Juan Vicente Gómezb. 1857VEVenezuelan general and dictator (1857-1935)
- Dolores Ibarrurib. 1895ESnot in their usual nameSpanish Republican leader of the Spanish Civil War and communist politician (1895-1989)
- Vicente Fernándezb. 1940MXnot in their usual nameMexican actor and ranchera singer (1940–2021)
- Paco de Lucíab. 1947ESnot in their usual nameSpanish flamenco, classical, jazz guitarist & musician (1947-2014)
- Guillermo del Torob. 1964MXnot in their usual nameMexican filmmaker and author (born 1964)
- Delcy Rodriguezb. 1969VEnot in their usual nameActing President of Venezuela since 2026
- Eduardo Noriegab. 1973ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actor
- Cristina Castañob. 1978ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actress
- Mario Gómezb. 1985DEGerman-Spanish association football player (born 1985)
- Edinson Cavanib. 1987UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | RNEC — Nombres más registrados (newborn name statistics) | 2019 | 5.8K | #8 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 41 | #75 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gómez mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname originating as a patronymic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Gómez?
- In the etymology graph, Gomes is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Gómez have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 577 thousand people named Gómez, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gomez.
- Where is Gómez most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gómez is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 51 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gómez?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 576,647 people named Gómez, about 1 in 79 residents.
- How common is Gómez compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Gómez is the 5th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%B3mezThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gómez” — the 5th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.