Goncalves
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Goncalves is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 36th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Portuguese Gonçalves.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 119(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil≈1 in 582
- AOAngola≈1 in 1.2K
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)
- #477 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 322 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 119 (inferred from the name graph)
≈360,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
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 Gonçalves in PT Portugal, AO Angola.
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)
From Portuguese Gonçalves.
Sources 1
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Goncalves 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 | #36 | ≈360,000 est. | ≈1 in 582 | 1.9K | Goncalves | 232 |
| PT Portugal | #15 | ≈87,000 est. | ≈1 in 119 | — | Gonçalves | 186 |
| AO Angola | #27 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 10 | Gonçalves | 43 |
| FR France | — | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 3.8K | Goncalves | 6 |
| US United States | — | 8,000 | 1 in 42K | 9.7K | Goncalves | 322 |
| CH Switzerland | #124 | 5,653 | 1 in 1.5K | 5.7K | Goncalves | 73 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 2,241 | 1 in 1.5K | 2.2K | — | 1 |
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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family 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)
- Mendo Gonçalves da Maiab. 1020Lord of Maia
- Merlotb. 1974FRnot in their usual nameFrench singer (1974)
- Philippe Goncalvesb. 1976FRresearcher, ORCID id # 0000-0001-8069-7976
- Jean-Philippe Goncalvesb. 1978CACanadian musician
- Francisco Maiato Pedro Gonçalvesb. 1982AOAngolan botanist
- Nuno Goncalves Coelhob. 1982PTPortuguese rower
- Angela Goncalvesb. 1984PTPortuguese chess player
- Yohan Goutt Goncalvesb. 1994FREast Timorese alpine skier (born 1994)
- Bryan Goncalvesb. 1996FRFrench and Portuguese association footballer
- Bruno GoncalvesUSresearcher
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 36 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2M | #26 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 9.7K | #3,576 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8K | #4,437 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6K | #5,379 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 5.7K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 3.9K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 3.8K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 2.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 2K | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 582 | #2,199 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 343 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 306 | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Goncalves mean, and where does it come from?
- From Portuguese Gonçalves. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Goncalves have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 364 thousand people named Goncalves in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled goncalves.
- How common is the name Goncalves?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,000 people named Goncalves in 2010, about 1 in 42 thousand residents.
- How common is Goncalves compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Goncalves is the 36th most common surname of 424,864 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/goncalvesThe 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, “Goncalves” — the 36th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.