Given name & surname
Gomes
Gomes is a surname from Old Galician-Portuguese. It is used in Portuguese.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Old Galician-Portuguese Gomez, built from Portuguese Gomo + -es.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Gomes’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Gomes as a surname shares a linguistic root with the Spanish form Gómez. In Greek usage, Gomes as a surname is a transliteration of Γομές. In Portuguese usage, Gomes as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Galician form Gómez.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Gomes has relatives in 3 languages.
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Gomes
- Gomes Eanes de ZuraraPortuguese chronicler1410–1474
- Gomes Freire de AndradePortuguese Army general1757–1817
- Gomes de OliveiraBrazilian football player and managerborn 1962
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