Gordo
loc · Latin script
Meaning: man, from Sp. gordo fat (LL gurdus, of uncertain origin)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: IBGE, 2022
Gordo is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Mexico.
- PTPortugal
- MXMexico
- GTGuatemala
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. 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
- 132 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)man, from Sp. gordo fat (LL gurdus, of uncertain origin). Dim.: Gordillo. son. 2. from a ME survival of the OE personal name Gordon i. Scots: habitation name from a place in the for¬ Godsunu, composed of the elements god good + sunu son. mer county of Berwicks. (now part of Borders region), ap¬ See also Godson. parently so called from Brit, words that were ancestors of
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gordo counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
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: INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)Gordo 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 Spanish, man, from Sp. gordo fat (LLgurdus, of uncertain origin).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In Portuguese, fat, thick
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
In Portuguese, carrying a high amount of fat within one's body; fat; obese (of a person or animal)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, neuter of gordu
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, proudly
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)- Adolfo Gordob. 1858BRBrazilian politician
- Gordon Cooperb. 1927USnot in their usual nameAmerican astronaut (1927–2004)
- José Luis y su guitarrab. 1935ESnot in their usual nameSpanish singer-songwriter, actor
- Gregorio Gordob. 1958ESSpanish politician
- Sergi Gordo Rodríguezb. 1967ESRoman Catholic bishop
- Iván Corralesb. 1974ESnot in their usual nameSpanish basketball player (born 1974)
- Salvador Gordob. 2003AOAngolan swimmer
- Victor GordoMexican-American politician
- Marcelo GordoBRBrazilian herpetologist
- Isabel GordoPTresearcher, evolutionary biologist
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 27 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 27 | #101,516 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 24 | #57,052 |
| ES Spain | Nombres de Persona en Español (Becker, 2004) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Gordo mean?
- Recorded meaning: man, from Sp. gordo fat (LL gurdus, of uncertain origin).
- Where does the name Gordo come from?
- man, from Sp. gordo fat (LL gurdus, of uncertain origin). Dim.: Gordillo. son. 2. from a ME survival of the OE personal name Gordon i. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- In which country does Gordo have the most bearers?
- Gordo is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled gordo.
What do you want to know about Gordo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gordoThe 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, “Gordo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.