Govea
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Variant of Portuguese Gouveia (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: INEC, 2024
/ɡobea/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Govea is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country.
- MXMexico≈1 in 8.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- PAPanama≈1 in 21Kfew records
- ECEcuador≈1 in 25Kfew records
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 Govea itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 178 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mexico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Govea
- Spanish:/ɡobea/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Variant of Portuguese Gouveia.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Govea is found
(measured from records)Govea 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 | #787 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | 222 | Govea | 141 |
| US United States | — | 5,327 | 1 in 62K | 5.3K | Govea | 178 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,963 | 1 in 71K | 3K | Govea | 50 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Govea | 25 |
| EC Ecuador | — | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 11 | Govea | 30 |
| PA Panama | #610 | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 1 | Govea | 23 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 57 | 1 in 59K | 57 | — | 10 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election; 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jorge Daniel Hernándezb. 1989MXnot in their usual nameMexican professional association footballer
- Juan Goveab. 1991ECEcuadorian footballer
- Omar Goveab. 1996MXMexican association football player
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Govea mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Portuguese Gouveia. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Govea?
- In Spanish /ɡobea/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Govea?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Govea in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled govea. After it come United States, Brazil, Venezuela and Ecuador; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Govea?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,327 people named Govea in 2010, about 1 in 62 thousand residents.
- How common is Govea compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Govea is the 787th most common surname of 206,803 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/goveaThe 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, “Govea” — ranked 1130th in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.