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Gonzalo

#1,423 in 2025Boys' name

Battle, through *gunþiz

Gonzalo has been given to 11,010 babies in the U.S. since 1902. In 2025 it ranked #1,423 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 254 recorded.

Babies named Gonzalo, 2025

1 in 26,100

Gonzalo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gonzalo: meaning, origin, and history

Battle, through *gunþiz

Spanish

What Gonzalo means

Gonzalo belongs to the name family reached through Gonzalo → Gonzalo → *gunþiz. Its meaning is “battle”.

Origin, language, and formation

Gonzalo is used in English and Spanish. Its origins include Spanish.

Gonzalo comes through Spanish Gonzalo.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gonçalo, Consalvo, Gonzalo and *gunþiz.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Gonzalo is pronounced /ɡonˈθalo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,010 boys were recorded with the name Gonzalo between 1902 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 254 in 2000; its best national rank was #694 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,543 in 2020 to #1,423 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,125 in 2015 to #1,423 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Gonzalo?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 26,100
127 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 13,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,423
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
18,095 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gonzalo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 18,095 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gonzalo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gonzalos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gonzalo was born before 1993 — so the typical Gonzalo is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
19.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
36.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
9,593
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 19.0% of all recorded uses (2,091).

Is Gonzalo rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+51
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+120
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−298
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.75×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2000 (254)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#694
2000

Where Gonzalo is used

Across 2016–2025, Gonzalo was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 5,263 boys, against 1 in 9,074 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

119 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 5,263
  2. 2California1 in 5,556
  3. 3Arizona1 in 7,143
  4. 4Florida1 in 12,500
  5. 5Illinois1 in 25,000
  6. 6Colorado1 in 50,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 50,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Gonzalo around the world

Where Gonzalo ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2012–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    1927–2025
    #4,949
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1972–1977
    #455
    in 1977

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Gonzalo

People whose public names include Gonzalo, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Gonzalo in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Gonzalo. Linked forms have their own page here.

GonçalGozaloGontzalGonçaloConsalvoGonsalvoGonsalwyGonzalveGonzalvoGonçalvoGundisalvoGundisalvus

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Gonzalo by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,423
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 120
Best rank ever
#694
2000
Peak year
2000
254 that year
First recorded
1902
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
11,010
Count in 2025
127

Names similar to Gonzalo

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Gonzalo

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Gonzalo, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Gonzalo

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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