Gonsales
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Gonzalez (see Gonzalez)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡonsales/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gonsales is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country, where it is the 4th most common surname.
- UYUruguay1 in 16as Gonzalez(measured from records)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 31as Gonzalez
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 39as Gonzalez
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gonsales itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- #24 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 593 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16 (inferred from the name graph)
930,137 named Gonzalez
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay, as Gonzalez
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Gonzalez in US United States, AR Argentina, VE Venezuela and 4 more, González in UY Uruguay and Gonzaléz in CR Costa Rica.
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)
variant of Gonzalez (see Gonzalez).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gonsales 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #4 | 930,137as Gonzalez | 1 in 54 | 930K | Gonzalez | 336 |
| US United States | #17 | 841,025as Gonzalez | 1 in 396 | 841K | Gonzalez | 593 |
| AR Argentina | #1 | 783,399as Gonzalez | 1 in 58 | 783K | Gonzalez | 211 |
| VE Venezuela | #2 | ≈730,000 est. | ≈1 in 39 | 5.7K | Gonzalez | 172 |
| CO Colombia | #6 | ≈460,000 est. | ≈1 in 108 | 8.6K | Gonzalez | 246 |
| PY Paraguay | #1 | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 31 | — | Gonzalez | 112 |
| UY Uruguay | #85 | 206,229as Gonzalez | 1 in 16 | 206K | González | 140 |
| NI Nicaragua | #3 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 45 | 632 | Gonzalez | 101 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 119,428as Gonzalez | 1 in 43 | 119K | Gonzaléz | 154 |
930,137 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RNEC — Nombres más registrados (newborn name statistics); This page contains a database of popular Nicaraguan names and surnames categorized by gender and frequency, published by; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Gonsales is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Variante di Gonzalez
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
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)
- Priscila GonsalesBRBrazilian journalist
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 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.9K | #11,095 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.4K | #11,910 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #18,774 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 146 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 41 | #51,259 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 41 | #50,851 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 29 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 2 | #15,398 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Gonsales mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Gonzalez (see Gonzalez). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gonsales?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡonsales/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Gonsales have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 930 thousand people named Gonzalez, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gonsales most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Gonsales itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Uruguay's: the national register counts about 1 in 16 people named Gonzalez.
- How common is the name Gonsales?
- In Spain, the national register counted 930,137 people named Gonzalez, about 1 in 54 residents.
- How common is Gonsales compared with other names?
- In Spain, Gonsales is the 4th most common surname of 395,154 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/gonsalesThe 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, “Gonsales” — the 4th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.