Gonalves
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Gonalves is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Portugal than in any other country.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 2.4Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 136K
- ARArgentina≈1 in 180K
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.
- Portugal (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Gonalves is found
(measured from records)Gonalves 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PT Portugal | #554 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Gonalves | 19 |
| BR Brazil | #794 | 1,559 | 1 in 136K | 1.6K | Gonalves | 57 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Gonalves | 4 |
| US United States | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Gonalves | 31 |
| ES Spain | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 322K | — | Gonalves | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 150K | — | Gonalves | 3 |
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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gonalves?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.5 thousand people named Gonalves in Portugal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gonalves. After it come Brazil, Argentina, United States and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Gonalves?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,559 people named Gonalves, about 1 in 136 thousand residents.
- How common is Gonalves compared with other names?
- In Portugal, Gonalves is the 554th most common surname of 45,564 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gonalves?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gonalvesThe 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, “Gonalves” — the 554th most common surname in Portugal. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.