Goncalo

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Goncalo is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. In Uruguay it is the 30th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Portuguese Gonçalo, variant of Gonçalvo.

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 322◐
  • PTPortugal1 in 395
  • CLChile1 in 464

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

≈126K ●

across 9 countries

#938 ●

of 16M given names

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
365 ●

1.3M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 689 ◐

Spain

Spellings & scripts●

GonzaloLatin · Spanish●2.5M records
ΓκονζαλοGreek · Greek●0 records

Locally spelled Gonzalo in AR Argentina, ES Spain, MX Mexico and 16 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Borrowed from Portuguese Gonçalo, variant of Gonçalvo.

Sources 1

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Goncalo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#1381,275,305626K rec.—1.6KGonzalo190
MX Mexico#225217,774175K rec.—741Gonzalo203
CL Chile#97194,05416K rec.—128Gonzalo162
PE Peru#235137,221112K rec.——Gonzalo120
VE Venezuela#33876,55938K rec.—13KGonzalo81
ES Spain#13372,62884K rec.1 in 68973KGonzalo223
UY Uruguay#3058,46229K rec.——Gonzalo121
CO Colombia#21833,77813K rec.—19Gonzalo142
US United States—22,226111K rec.1 in 15K22KGonzalo365
PT Portugal#6721,27613K rec.—624Goncalo137
EC Ecuador#15117,494△1.4K rec.1 in 96617KGonzalo83
BR Brazil—11,54633K rec.1 in 18K13KGoncalo104

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Languages●

  • Portuguese263K94%
  • English14K5%
  • French1.8K1%
  • Spanish6241%
  • German3071%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese263,41594%
English13,5455%
French1,8121%
Spanish6241%
German3071%

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◐

Goncalo is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Norwegian Bokmål given name351 records spelled Goncalo9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, United Kingdom

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Gonçalo

  • Hindi given name268 records spelled Goncalo4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United Kingdom, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Gonçalo

  • Finnish given name126 records spelled Goncalo4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland

    Also written Gonçalo

  • Russian name119 records spelled Goncalo6 spellings in the group

    Also written Гансалу, Gonçalo

  • a separate given name103 records spelled Goncalo3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Gonc̜alo, Gonçalo

35 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.

Over time●

05K10K15K19401960198020002020

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Goncalo in IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), Brazil, 1930–2022
Yearrecords
19305
1940594
19502,117
19604,512
19707,162
19808,859
19909,950
200010,541
201010,846
202011,201
202211,546

BR IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) — 11 years between 1930–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

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 28 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Goncalo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—17K#917
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—13K#1,788
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—13K#606
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202212K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—11K#1,541
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202011K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)201011K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)200011K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)19909.9K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)19808.9K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)19707.2K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)19604.5K—

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 2026-09-12 data build · 92 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Goncalo?
We estimate roughly 126 thousand people bear Goncalo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Goncalo have the most bearers?
Goncalo is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled gonzalo.
How common is Goncalo compared with other names?
In Argentina, Goncalo is the 138th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Goncalo a male or female name?
Goncalo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Goncalo mean?
Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Portuguese Gonçalo, variant of Gonçalvo.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Goncalo” — the 138th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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