Gonçalo
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gonçalo is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Portuguese Gonçalo, variant of Gonçalvo.
- BRBrazil≈1 in 55K(inferred from the name graph)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 9.8K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 233K
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.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Goncalo in BR Brazil.
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)
Borrowed from Portuguese Gonçalo, variant of Gonçalvo.
Sources 1
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gonçalo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 55K | 13K | Goncalo | 73 |
| PT Portugal | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | 624 | Gonçalo | 146 |
| US United States | 194 | 1 in 1.7M | 222 | Gonçalo | 111 |
| FR France | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 565K | 11 | — | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 553K | listed | — | 92 |
| CH Switzerland | 36 | 1 in 233K | 36 | — | 23 |
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: IBGE — Nomes (census name API); IRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
- Gonzalo Menéndezb. 925not in their usual nameCount of Portugal
- Gonçalo Álvaresb. 1400Portuguese explorer
- Gonçalo Uvab. 1984PTPortuguese rugby union footballer
- Gonçalo Paciênciab. 1994PTPortuguese footballer
- Gonçalo Guedesb. 1996PTPortuguese footballer (born 1996)
- Rúben Vinagreb. 1999PTnot in their usual namePortuguese association football player
- Gonçalo Cardosob. 2000PTPortuguese association football player, born 2000
- Gonçalo Ramosb. 2001PTPortuguese footballer (born 2001)
- Gonçalo Ináciob. 2001PTPortuguese footballer (born 2001)
- Gonçalo VelhoPortuguese nobleman and explorer
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 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 13K | #1,787 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023) | 2017 | 1.1K | #12 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023) | 2018 | 910 | #18 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023) | 2019 | 851 | #19 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023) | 2020 | 774 | #19 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023) | 2021 | 694 | #19 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023) | 2022 | 660 | #19 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023) | 2023 | 624 | #19 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Gonçalo mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Portuguese Gonçalo, variant of Gonçalvo. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Gonçalo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.9 thousand people named Gonçalo in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled goncalo.
- How common is the name Gonçalo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 194 people named Gonçalo in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Gonçalo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gon%C3%A7aloThe 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, “Gonçalo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.