Gonzalo

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Gonzalo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. In Uruguay it is the 30th most common given name. In Spanish, recorded as from the personal name Gonzalo, ofVisigothic origin, formed with gunp ‘battle’.

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 199(measured from records)
  • CLChile≈1 in 434
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 476

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.

Argentina (inferred from the name graph)

≈96,000 people, est.

#922 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
410 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 199 (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GonzaloLatin(measured from records)
ΓκονζάλοGreek(measured from records)

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 the Spanish personal name Gonzalo, of Germanic origin, based on gunth ‘battle’.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

How Gonzalo is read(measured from records)

Gonzalo is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish85%

    from the personal name Gonzalo, ofVisigothic origin, formed with gunp ‘battle’.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

    corded in the L form Gundisalvus. The first element is gund battle, strife; the second was perhaps originally sal hall, later influenced by L salvus safe. give you good even). Vars.: Gonzalvo, Gozalo. bestowed on one who was easily satisfied; it may also

    as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

    Germánico, de Gundisalvo/Gundisalv: 'el elfo de la batalla' o 'genio del combate'.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • English5.6%

    From the Spanish personal name Gonzalo, of Germanic origin, based on gunth ‘battle’.

    as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gonzalo 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.

Where Gonzalo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#153≈96,000 est.≈1 in 4761.6KGonzalo199
ES Spain#14472,6281 in 68973KGonzalo248
CL Chile#107≈42,000 est.≈1 in 434128Gonzalo171
CO Colombia#239≈28,000 est.≈1 in 1.8K19Gonzalo152
BO Bolivia#369≈22,000 est.≈1 in 519—Gonzalo81
UY Uruguay#3017,0031 in 19917KGonzalo127

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); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gonzalo is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Gonzálo, Ğonzalo, Ğõňźâĺõ, Ģoņząlo

  • French given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Peru

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Gónzalo, Gonzálo, Gónzáló, Gonzàlo

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Gónzalo, Gonzálo

  • Lao given name19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Chile, Spain

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written กอนซาโล, Gonzálo, Gónzáló, G̶o̶n̶z̶a̶l̶o̶, Gonzàlo

  • Swahili given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Peru, Ecuador

    Also written Gonzàlo

  • Indonesian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Ecuador, Indonesia, Peru

    Also written Gonzálo, Gônzalō, Ģöņźălö

  • Russian given name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Peru, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Гонсало, Гонзало, Gonsalo, Гансала, Gonzalö

  • Croatian given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Argentina, Peru

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Gonsalo, Gonzálo, GÖnzalo, Гонсало

57 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gonzalo 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.

  • Visigothic, ‘battle ready’.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • Guerrero preparado para el combate

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

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)

100012001400160018002000Gonzalo de Berceo, b. 1196Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, b. 1436Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, b. 1453Gonzalo Pizarro, b. 1502Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, b. 1930Louis Alphonse de Bourbon, b. 1975Gonzalo Jara, b. 1985Gonzalo Higuaín, b. 1987Gonzalo Castro Randon, b. 1987Gonzalo Montiel, b. 1997

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 74 sources across 35 countries.

Official registers attesting Gonzalo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—73K#131
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—69K#63
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—17K—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)2024572#250
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)2015313—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)2015313—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)2021128—
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—19#102
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)19471—

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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

Where does the name Gonzalo come from?
From the Spanish personal name Gonzalo, of Germanic origin, based on gunth ‘battle’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
In which country does Gonzalo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 96 thousand people named Gonzalo in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gonzalo.
Where is Gonzalo most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gonzalo is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 199 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
What does the name Gonzalo mean?
In Spanish, from the personal name Gonzalo, ofVisigothic origin, formed with gunp ‘battle’.
How common is the name Gonzalo?
In Spain, the national register counted 72,628 people named Gonzalo, about 1 in 689 residents.
How common is Gonzalo compared with other names?
In Argentina, Gonzalo is the 153rd most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
Is Gonzalo a male or female name?
Gonzalo 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.
What are other forms of the name Gonzalo?
In the etymology graph, Gonçal is a form of the same name in other languages.

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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, “Gonzalo” — the 153rd most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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