Gonzalez
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic from the personal name Gonzalo, a personal name of Visigothic origin, based on the Germanic element gunjj ‘battle’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡonsales/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gonzalez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country, where it is the 4th most common surname.
- UYUruguay1 in 16(measured from records)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 31
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 39
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)
- #24 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 593 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16 (inferred from the name graph)
930,137 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)
Locally spelled González in UY Uruguay and Gonzaléz in CR Costa Rica.
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 from the personal name Gonzalo, a personal name of Visigothic origin, based on the Germanic element gunjj ‘battle’. Compare Portuguese Gon9alves (see Goncalves).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gonzalez 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 | #4 | 930,137 | 1 in 54 | 930K | Gonzalez | 336 |
| US United States | #17 | 841,025 | 1 in 396 | 841K | Gonzalez | 593 |
| AR Argentina | #1 | 783,399 | 1 in 58 | 783K | Gonzalez | 211 |
| VE Venezuela | #2 | ≈730,000 est. | ≈1 in 39 | 5.7K | Gonzalez | 172 |
| CO Colombia | #6 | ≈460,000 est. | ≈1 in 108 | 8.6K | Gonzalez | 246 |
| PY Paraguay | #1 | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 31 | — | Gonzalez | 112 |
| UY Uruguay | #85 | 206,229 | 1 in 16 | 206K | González | 140 |
| NI Nicaragua | #3 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 45 | 632 | Gonzalez | 101 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 119,428 | 1 in 43 | 119K | Gonzaléz | 154 |
930,137 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RNEC — Nombres más registrados (newborn name statistics); This page contains a database of popular Nicaraguan names and surnames categorized by gender and frequency, published by; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Gonzalez is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, ‘Son of Gonzalo’.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In Italian, variante de Gonzales
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Francisco Pizarrob. 1478ESnot in their usual nameSpanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire
- Felipe Gonzálezb. 1942ESPrime Minister of Spain from 1982 to 1996
- Vicente del Bosqueb. 1950ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer
- Miguel Boséb. 1956PAnot in their usual nameSpanish-Italian musician, singer and actor
- Alejandro González Iñárritub. 1963MXMexican film director
- Raúl González Blancob. 1977ESSpanish association football player
- Daniel Brühlb. 1978ESnot in their usual nameGerman actor
- Jason Momoab. 1979USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (born 1979)
- Santi Cazorlab. 1984ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player
- Eiza Gonzálezb. 1990MXMexican actress and singer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 57 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 930K | #3 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 930K | #3 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 841K | #13 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 828K | #13 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 783K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 598K | #23 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 206K | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 119K | #6 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 330 | #3 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- Where does the name Gonzalez come from?
- patronymic from the personal name Gonzalo, a personal name of Visigothic origin, based on the Germanic element gunjj ‘battle’. Compare Portuguese Gon9alves (see Goncalves). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gonzalez?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡonsales/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Gonzalez mean?
- Recorded meaning: patronymic from the personal name Gonzalo, a personal name of Visigothic origin, based on the Germanic element gunjj ‘battle’.
- In which country does Gonzalez have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 930 thousand people named Gonzalez, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gonzalez.
- Where is Gonzalez most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gonzalez is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 16 people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gonzalez?
- In Spain, the national register counted 930,137 people named Gonzalez, about 1 in 54 residents.
- How common is Gonzalez compared with other names?
- In Spain, Gonzalez is the 4th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gonzalezThe 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, “Gonzalez” — the 4th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.