Godiño
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Godiño is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Patronymic surname from a Medieval given name, which originated as a short form of any of various Germanic names beginning with the elements *gutô (“Goth”) or *gudą (“god, deity”).
- ESSpain1 in 20K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 54K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 106K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 156 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
2,484 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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 Godino in AR Argentina, ES Spain, PH Philippines and 2 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)Patronymic surname from a Medieval given name, which originated as a short form of any of various Germanic names beginning with the elements *gutô (“Goth”) or *gudą (“god, deity”).
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Godiño 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.
2,484 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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)- María Severina Navarrete Godiñob. 1923UYUruguayan writer
- Marcela Godiño Silvab. 1970UYUruguayan writer
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)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 5 | #168,693 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Godiño mean, and where does it come from?
- Patronymic surname from a Medieval given name, which originated as a short form of any of various Germanic names beginning with the elements *gutô (“Goth”) or *gudą (“god, deity”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Godiño have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named Godiño, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled godino.
- Where is Godiño most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Godiño is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 5.1 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Godiño?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,484 people named Godiño, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Godiño compared with other names?
- In Anguilla, Godiño is the 786th most common surname of 7,424 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/godi%C3%B1oThe 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, “Godiño” — the 786th most common surname in Anguilla. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.