Gomez

surname · Latin script

Meaning: From a medieval Spanish personal name, probably Germanic, meaning literally ‘man’

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ɡomes/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Gomez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 5th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 73(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 79
  • ESSpain1 in 101

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 (measured from records)

576,647 people

#53 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

5 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
554 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 51 (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GomezLatin(measured from records)
ГомесCyrillic(measured from records)
โกเมซThai(measured from records)
ΓκομεζGreek(measured from records)
고메즈Hangul(measured from records)

Locally spelled Gómez in CR Costa Rica and Gòmez in UY Uruguay.

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 a medieval Spanish personal name, probably Germanic, meaning literally ‘man’.

Sources 1

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

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gomez 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 Gomez is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#5576,6471 in 79577KGomez193
ES Spain#9496,2721 in 101496KGomez301
CO Colombia#2≈470,000 est.≈1 in 1045.8KGomez258
US United States#57365,6551 in 910368KGomez554
VE Venezuela#13≈230,000 est.≈1 in 1241.6KGomez139
CR Costa Rica#24269,7701 in 7370KGómez137
PY Paraguay#11≈70,000 est.≈1 in 103—Gomez90
UY Uruguay—66,2471 in 5166KGòmez113

576,647 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RNEC — Nombres más registrados (newborn name statistics); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos 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)

Gomez is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Philippines

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Gómez, Gòmez, Goméz, Gomèz, Gömez

  • a separate name14 spellings in the group

    Also written Gŏmez, G̈ómez, Góméz, Goḿez, Goméz

  • Swedish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Denmark, Peru

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Gómez

  • Polish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Poland, Peru

    Also written Gómez, Gomez'

  • Croatian surname50 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Argentina, Peru

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Gómez, Gomes, Гомез, Гомес, Gômëž

85 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)

Gomez is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • from a medieval personal name, probably of Visigothic origin, from guma ‘man’. Compare Gomes.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In English, An unincorporated community in Elliott County, Kentucky, United States.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, A man

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

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)

18501900195020002050Dolores Ibarruri, b. 1895Vicente Fernández, b. 1940Paco de Lucía, b. 1947Guillermo del Toro, b. 1964Delcy Rodriguez, b. 1969Mario Gómez, b. 1985Edinson Cavani, b. 1987Selena Gomez, b. 1992Joe Gomez, b. 1997Xochitl Gomez, b. 2006
  • Dolores Ibarrurib. 1895ESnot in their usual nameSpanish Republican leader of the Spanish Civil War and communist politician (1895-1989)
  • Vicente Fernándezb. 1940MXnot in their usual nameMexican actor and ranchera singer (1940–2021)
  • Paco de Lucíab. 1947ESnot in their usual nameSpanish flamenco, classical, jazz guitarist & musician (1947-2014)
  • Guillermo del Torob. 1964MXnot in their usual nameMexican filmmaker and author (born 1964)
  • Delcy Rodriguezb. 1969VEnot in their usual nameActing President of Venezuela since 2026
  • Mario Gómezb. 1985DEGerman-Spanish association football player (born 1985)
  • Edinson Cavanib. 1987UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan association football player
  • Selena Gomezb. 1992USAmerican singer and actress (born 1992)
  • Joe Gomezb. 1997GBEnglish association football player (born 1997)
  • Xochitl Gomezb. 2006USAmerican actress (born 2006)

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)

FormalEstimado/a Gomez,Dear Gomez, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Gomez,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 70 sources across 38 countries.

Official registers attesting Gomez
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—577K—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—496K#9
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—496K#9
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020368K#49
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010366K#51
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000264K#68
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—70K#17
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—66K—
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—339#2
CR Costa RicaTSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration)———

Reference works 10

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 Gomez mean, and where does it come from?
From a medieval Spanish personal name, probably Germanic, meaning literally ‘man’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
How do you pronounce Gomez?
A machine transcription gives /ɡomes/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Gomez have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 577 thousand people named Gomez, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gomez.
Where is Gomez most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gomez is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 51 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Gomez?
In Argentina, the national register counted 576,647 people named Gomez, about 1 in 79 residents.
How common is Gomez compared with other names?
In Argentina, Gomez is the 5th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Gomez” — the 5th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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