Gonzales
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: a surname originating as a patronymic, variant of González, from the Spanish male given name Gonzalo
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡonθales/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gonzales is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. In Bolivia it is the 6th most common surname.
- PEPeru≈1 in 150(inferred from the name graph)
- BOBolivia≈1 in 207
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 345
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 Gonzales 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)
- #209 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 531 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 150 (inferred from the name graph)
930,137 named Gonzalez
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Gónzales 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)
a surname originating as a patronymic, variant of González, from the Spanish male given name Gonzalo
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Gonzales is read(measured from records)
Gonzales 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.
- Spanish44%
a surname originating as a patronymic, variant of González, from the Spanish male given name Gonzalo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English42%
city, county, TX; town, LA
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Gonzales 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 | #804 | 930,137as Gonzalez | 1 in 54 | 930K | Gonzales | 152 |
| US United States | #93 | 841,025as Gonzalez | 1 in 396 | 841K | Gonzales | 531 |
| AR Argentina | #419 | 783,399as Gonzalez | 1 in 58 | 783K | Gonzales | 102 |
| PH Philippines | #8 | ≈320,000 est. | ≈1 in 345 | — | Gonzales | 187 |
| PE Peru | #16 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 150 | 468K | Gonzales | 148 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 206,229as Gonzalez | 1 in 16 | 206K | — | 36 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 130,809as Gonzalez | 1 in 129 | 131K | Gonzales | 37 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 119,428as Gonzalez | 1 in 43 | 119K | Gónzales | 50 |
| BO Bolivia | #6 | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 207 | — | Gonzales | 78 |
930,137 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos), counting the spelling gonzalez. 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; the pe-reniec-name-freq register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INEC — civil registry names; 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)
Gonzales 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.
In Italian, do nome germânico Gunthfuns/Gundisalvus; forma ibérica ligada a Gonçalves
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)
- Chile Gómezb. 1909USnot in their usual nameMexican baseball player
- Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalezb. 1925USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (1925-2006)
- Norberto Gonzalesb. 1947PHPhilippine trade unionist and social-democratic politician
- Alberto Gonzalesb. 1955US80th United States Attorney General
- Dana Gonzalesb. 1963USAmerican cinematographer
- Paul Gonzalesb. 1964USAmerican boxer
- Jonathan Jossb. 1965USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (1965–2025)
- Clifton Collins Jr.b. 1970USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Tony Gonzalesb. 1980USAmerican politician (born 1980)
- Paolo Guerrerob. 1984PEnot in their usual namePeruvian 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)
Attested in 54 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | RENIEC — Apellidos más frecuentes (national DNI bearer counts, 2025) | 2025 | 468K | #15 |
| PE Peru | RENIEC — DNI population names | 2019 | 318K | #23 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 215K | #111 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 208K | #114 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 194K | #110 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 12K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 8.3K | #511 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 8.3K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 7.1K | #772 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7.1K | #772 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 683 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 191 | #1,022 |
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
- What does the name Gonzales mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname originating as a patronymic, variant of González, from the Spanish male given name Gonzalo Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Gonzales?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡonθales/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Gonzales have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 930 thousand people named Gonzalez, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Gonzales?
- In Spain, the national register counted 930,137 people named Gonzalez, about 1 in 54 residents.
- How common is Gonzales compared with other names?
- In Spain, Gonzales is the 804th 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/gonzalesThe 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, “Gonzales” — the 804th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.