Gonzales

207,620 people in the United States were counted with the surname Gonzales in the 2020 census, making it the 114th most common in the country. That is about one person in 1,440.

By the numbers

People: 207,620
Rank: 114th
How common: 1 in 1,440
Per 100,000: 69.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Gonzales described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 82.6%
White, not Hispanic 10.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.6%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Gonzales

Pancho Gonzales (1928–1995)American tennis player
Alberto Gonzales (born 1955)80th United States Attorney General
Eva Gonzalès (1849–1883)French painter
Cristian Gonzáles (born 1975)Indonesian former footballer
Paul Gonzales (born 1964)American boxer
Pedro Gonzales (born 1943)Peruvian footballer
Joseph Gonzales (1907–1984)French footballer
Chilly Gonzales (born 1972)Canadian musician

People named Gonzales with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Gonzales

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.