Gagó
surname · Latin script
Gagó is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country: 9,074 people, counted by INE. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Gago, from Galician gago (“stutterer”). Gagó is also written กาโก in Thai.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 5.5K
- UYUruguay1 in 7.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 148 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
9,074 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Gagó in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gago in ES Spain, AR Argentina, PE Peru and 4 more.
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)- SpanishGago(measured from records)
- Galiciangago“stutterer”(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish Gago, from Galician gago (“stutterer”).
Cited for this meaning 5
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Gagó is found
(measured from records)Gagó 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #506 | 9,074 | 1 in 5.5K | 9.1K | Gago | 148 |
| NI Nicaragua | #224 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Gago | 17 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Gago | 48 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2,477 | 1 in 18K | 2.5K | Gago | 71 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,501 | 1 in 141K | 1.5K | Gago | 81 |
| PT Portugal | #434 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Gago | 66 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 440 | 1 in 7.7K | 440 | Gago | 27 |
9,074 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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)- Julio Gagób. 1961PEPeruvian politician
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gagó mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Gago, from Galician gago (“stutterer”). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 3 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gagó?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 9.1 thousand people named Gagó, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gago. After it come Nicaragua, Peru, Argentina and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Gagó?
- In Spain, the national register counted 9,074 people named Gagó, about 1 in 5.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Gagó compared with other names?
- In Spain, Gagó is the 506th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gagó?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gag%C3%B3The 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, “Gagó” — ranked 618th in Spain (INE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.