Gonzaló
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gonzaló is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. In Uruguay it is the 30th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Purportedly derived from an Old High German name with an initial element derived from Proto-Germanic *gunþiz (“war”) + *salbō. Other sources derive it from Gothic [Term?]. Gonzaló is also written Γκονζάλο in Greek.
- UYUruguay1 in 199(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 360
- BOBolivia≈1 in 440few records
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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- #922 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 410 (measured from records)
- 1 in 199 (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Gonzaló in other scripts: Greek
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gonzalo in AR Argentina, MX Mexico, CL Chile and 4 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)- Proto-Germanic*gunþiz“war”(measured from records)
- Gothic[Term?](measured from records)
Purportedly derived from an Old High German name with an initial element derived from Proto-Germanic *gunþiz (“war”) + *salbō. Other sources derive it from Gothic [Term?]. Cognate with Portuguese Gonçalo / Gonçalvo, Italian Consalvo.
Cited for this meaning 8
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gonzaló 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #224 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 741 | Gonzalo | 212 |
| AR Argentina | #153 | ≈97,000 est. | ≈1 in 470 | 1.6K | Gonzalo | 199 |
| ES Spain | #144 | 72,628 | 1 in 689 | 73K | Gonzalo | 248 |
| CL Chile | #107 | ≈55,000 est. | ≈1 in 360 | 128 | Gonzalo | 171 |
| CO Colombia | #239 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 19 | Gonzalo | 152 |
| BO Bolivia | #369 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 443 | — | Gonzalo | 81 |
| UY Uruguay | #30 | 17,003 | 1 in 199 | 17K | Gonzalo | 127 |
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); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Nombres 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gonzaló mean, and where does it come from?
- Purportedly derived from an Old High German name with an initial element derived from Proto-Germanic *gunþiz (“war”) + *salbō. Other sources derive it from Gothic [Term?]. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and A concise dictionary of first names and 6 other sources.
- Is Gonzaló a male or female name?
- Gonzaló is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Gonzaló?
- Mondonomo estimates about 126 thousand people named Gonzaló in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gonzalo. After it come Argentina, Spain, Chile and Colombia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Gonzaló most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gonzaló is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 199 people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gonzaló?
- In Spain, the national register counted 72,628 people named Gonzaló, about 1 in 689 residents.
- How common is Gonzaló compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Gonzaló is the 224th most common given name of 193,485 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gonzal%C3%B3The 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, “Gonzaló” — ranked 108th in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.