Gomes
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the medieval personal name Gomes, probably Visigothic in origin, from guma ‘man’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡomis/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gomes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 11th most common surname.
- BRBrazil≈1 in 70(inferred from the name graph)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 95
- AOAngola≈1 in 527
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)
- #189 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 405 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 70 (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,000,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
Highest-authority source
Brazil, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the medieval personal name Gomes, probably Visigothic in origin, from guma ‘man’. This name is also common on the west coast of India, where it was taken by Portuguese colonists.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gomes 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 | #11 | ≈3,000,000 est. | ≈1 in 70 | 1.1K | Gomes | 271 |
| PT Portugal | #11 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 95 | — | Gomes | 220 |
| AO Angola | #5 | ≈62,000 est. | ≈1 in 527 | 6 | Gomes | 64 |
| FR France | — | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 2.6K | Gomes | 8 |
| US United States | — | 24,827 | 1 in 13K | 25K | Gomes | 405 |
| GW Guinea-Bissau | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 151 | 157K | — | 33 |
| GY Guyana | — | 1,400 | 1 in 536 | 1.4K | — | — |
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); A comprehensive look at the most common surnames in Guinea-Bissau, compiled by the Instituto Nacional de Estatística de; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Gomes is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, an originally surname originating as a patronymic
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Peter, US theologian
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In enm, plural of gome (“man”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, second-person singular present subjunctive of gomar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, plural of goma
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costab. 1863PTPortuguese general and politician (1863–1929)
- António Mascarenhas Monteirob. 1944CVnot in their usual nameCape Verdean politician and former president of Cape Verde (1944-2016)
- Aristides Gomesb. 1954GWBissau-Guinean politician
- Fernando Gomesb. 1956PTPortuguese footballer (1956–2022)
- Ciro Gomesb. 1957BRBrazilian politician, former governor of Ceará, Brazil
- Nuno Gomesb. 1976PTPortuguese footballer (born 1976)
- Heurelho Gomesb. 1981BRBrazilian association football player (born 1981)
- Hugo Miguel Ferreira Gomes Vianab. 1983PTPortuguese footballer
- Daniel Miguel Alves Gomesb. 1983VEPortuguese footballer
- Andre Gomesb. 1993PTPortuguese association football player (born 1993)
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 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 25K | #1,359 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 25K | #1,433 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 21K | #1,606 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 2.6K | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1.4K | #54 |
| AO Angola | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 6 | #16 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- 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
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 Gomes come from?
- from the medieval personal name Gomes, probably Visigothic in origin, from guma ‘man’. This name is also common on the west coast of India, where it was taken by Portuguese colonists. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gomes?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡomis/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- What does the name Gomes mean?
- Recorded meaning: from the medieval personal name Gomes, probably Visigothic in origin, from guma ‘man’.
- What are other forms of the name Gomes?
- In the etymology graph, Gómez is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Gomes have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.0 million people named Gomes in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gomes.
- How common is the name Gomes?
- In the United States, the national register counted 24,827 people named Gomes in 2010, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Gomes compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Gomes is the 11th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gomes?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gomesThe 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, “Gomes” — the 11th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.