Godínez
surname · Latin script
Meaning: little Goth; Moguer, España
Godínez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. In Guatemala it is the 48th most common surname.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 627(measured from records)
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 800
- MXMexico≈1 in 1.6K
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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 316 (measured from records)
- 1 in 627 (inferred from the name graph)
≈81,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Godinez in MX Mexico, US United States, PH Philippines and 5 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)little Goth; Moguer, España
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Godínez is found
(measured from records)Godínez 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #218 | ≈81,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 1.4K | Godinez | 189 |
| GT Guatemala | #48 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 802 | — | Godinez | 52 |
| US United States | — | 21,640 | 1 in 15K | 22K | Godinez | 316 |
| PH Philippines | #897 | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Godinez | 59 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Godinez | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | #133 | 8,130 | 1 in 627 | 8.1K | Godinez | 58 |
| SV El Salvador | #309 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Godinez | 20 |
| TT Trinidad & Tobago | #273 | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Godinez | 2 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)- Loopy Godinezb. 1993MXMexican mixed martial arts fighter
- Melissa Floresb. 1998MXnot in their usual nameMexican beauty pageant titleholder
- Luis Cervantesb. 2001MXnot in their usual nameMexican footballer
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 Godínez mean, and where does it come from?
- little Goth; Moguer, España Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Godínez?
- Mondonomo estimates about 81 thousand people named Godínez in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled godinez. After it come Guatemala, United States, Philippines and Pakistan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Godínez most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Godínez is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 627 people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Godínez?
- In the United States, the national register counted 21,640 people named Godínez in 2010, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Godínez compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Godínez is the 218th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/god%C3%ADnezThe 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, “Godínez” — the 218th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.