Gomes

surname · Portuguese · Latin script

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

Gomes is a surname, most frequently recorded in Brazil, where it is the 13th most common surname. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from the medieval personal name Gomes, probably Visigothic in origin, from guma ‘man’.

rarermore common
  • GWGuinea-Bissau1 in 11◐
  • BRBrazil1 in 71
  • PTPortugal1 in 88

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈53K ●

across 13 countries

#119 ●

of 21M surnames

Sources
368 ●

2.0M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 536 ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Gómes in SV El Salvador.

Meaning & origin●

from the medieval personal name Gomes, probably Visigothic in origin, from guma ‘man’. This name is also common on the west coast of India, where it was taken by Portuguese colonists.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Gomes is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#139,721,1541.7M rec.—1.1KGomes257
GW Guinea-Bissau#1157,230231 rec.—157KGomes30
PT Portugal#1196,70433K rec.——Gomes205
MX Mexico#85336,41330K rec.—25Gomes97
US United States—24,82783K rec.1 in 13K25KGomes368
VE Venezuela#68012,92512K rec.——Gomes57
CO Colombia#6109,8828.2K rec.——Gomes67
GB United Kingdom—8,5196.1K rec.——Gomes173
PE Peru—8,2747.8K rec.——Gomes41
CH Switzerland—7,041△2K rec.1 in 1.2K7KGomes91
ES Spain#9356,7059K rec.1 in 7.5K6.7KGomes125
IN India—5,3294K rec.1 in 249K5.3KGomes125

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Languages●

  • Portuguese10M93%
  • English217K2%
  • French152K1%
  • Spanish127K1%
  • Bangla67K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese10,096,50293%
English217,1842%
French151,5691%
Spanish126,8171%
Bangla66,5331%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Gomes is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname307K records spelled Gomes32 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Bangladesh, Switzerland, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Gómes, Gomés, Gömës, Goemes, Gòmes

  • French surname172K records spelled Gomes12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Gomès, Gomés, Gömës, Gômes, Gómes

  • Bangla surname117K records spelled Gomes11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh, India, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Bangla, Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Gömes, Gomès, Gómes

  • a separate surname37K records spelled Gomes6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Spain

    Also written Gômes, Gomês, Gomés, Gómes, Gomès

  • Danish surname6.2K records spelled Gomes9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, United States, Norway, United Kingdom

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian Bokmål

    Also written Gomés, Gómes

  • Finnish surname4.7K records spelled Gomes3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Netherlands, India

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Gomès

  • Arabic surname4.5K records spelled Gomes6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt

    Languages: Arabic, Maltese

    Also written Gomés, Gömęs, Gômes, Gómes

75 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●

Gomes 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 Portuguese, an originally surname originating as a patronymic

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

  • In English, Peter, US theologian

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In enm, plural of gome (“man”)

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

  • In Spanish, second-person singular present subjunctive of gomar

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

  • In Catalan, plural of goma

    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.

Over time●

01K2K3K4K190019201940196019803.5K · 1971

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Gomes in INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000), France, 1891–1991
Yearrecords
18917
190115
191114
192189
1931229
1941203
1951255
19611,228
19713,457
19812,522
19912,601

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa, b. 1863António Mascarenhas Monteiro, b. 1944Aristides Gomes, b. 1954Fernando Gomes, b. 1956Ciro Gomes, b. 1957Nuno Gomes, b. 1976Heurelho Gomes, b. 1981Hugo Miguel Ferreira Gomes Viana, b. 1983Daniel Miguel Alves Gomes, b. 1983Andre Gomes, b. 1993

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●

Attested in 55 sources across 33 countries.

Official registers attesting Gomes
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
GW Guinea-BissauA comprehensive look at the most common surnames in Guinea-Bissau, compiled by the Instituto Nacional de Estatística de2026157K#1
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202025K#1,359
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201025K#1,433
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200021K#1,606
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20247K#58
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—6.7K#813
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—6.7K#813
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—5.3K#1,496
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—5.2K#21
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—3.8K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19912.6K—
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 202520251.4K#54

Reference works 5

  • 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)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 195 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Gomes?
We estimate roughly 53 thousand people bear Gomes (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Gomes have the most bearers?
Gomes is most frequently recorded in Brazil, where it is most often spelled gomes.
How common is Gomes compared with other names?
In Brazil, Gomes is the 13th most common surname of 444,951 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Gomes mean?
Recorded meaning: from the medieval personal name Gomes, probably Visigothic in origin, from guma ‘man’.
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About this data

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Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Gomes” — the 13th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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