Gonzalo
The boy's name Gonzalo has been in the national records since 1902, with 11,010 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,421st. About 9,300 Gonzalos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 28.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Gonzalo
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 11,010
- Estimated living today
- 9,300
- Median age today
- 28
- Peak year
- 2000
- Best rank
- 695th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,421st
- First recorded
- 1902
How old the living Gonzalos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 11,010 babies given the name since 1902, about 9,300 are alive — 84 in every hundred. Roughly 2,500 of them are children and 710 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1997 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Spanish
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Gonzalos
- Gonzalo Higuaín (born 1987)Argentine association football player
- Gonzalo Montiel (born 1997)Argentinian association football player
- Gonzalo Castro (born 1987)German footballer
- Gonzalo Jara (born 1985)Chilean association football player
- Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada (born 1930)President of Bolivia
- Gonzalo Plata (born 2000)Ecuadorian footballer
- Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (1453–1515)Spanish general
- Gonzalo Rodríguez (born 1984)Argentine association football player
People named Gonzalo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Gonzalo is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Gonzalo is most concentrated in Texas (4.7×), California (4.3×), Arizona (2.5×), Nevada (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2000
The most popular boys’ names the year Gonzalo peaked:
Gonzalo elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain boys | Gonzalo | 33,183 | 27th |
| France boys | Gonzalo | 190 | 1,134th |
| England and Wales boys | Gonzalo | 45 | 2,404th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Gonzalo: rank by region
In 2024, Gonzalo was among the 10 most common names in 4 regions of Spain.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andalucía | Gonzalo | 9 | 523 |
| Extremadura | Gonzalo | 8 | 67 |
| Comunidad de Madrid | Gonzalo | 8 | 384 |
| Región de Murcia | Gonzalo | 9 | 94 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Spain after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Gonzalo among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Gonzalo | 11 | 20 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Gonzalo lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 72,628 men called Gonzalo were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sevilla | Gonzalo | 6,206 | 6.436 | 37 |
| Madrid | Gonzalo | 18,836 | 5.528 | 44 |
| Valladolid | Gonzalo | 1,367 | 5.311 | 48 |
| Burgos | Gonzalo | 866 | 4.772 | 50 |
| Segovia | Gonzalo | 372 | 4.684 | 54 |
| Cádiz | Gonzalo | 2,737 | 4.410 | 46 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.