Given name & surname
Gomez
Gomez is a surname from Spanish. It is used in English, Tagalog, and Cebuano.
Original SpanishGómez
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Cebuano usage, Gomez as a surname developed from Gómez.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1950. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gomez through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1950
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1950. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 452 as a first name in 2020; 368,213 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Gomez’s family of names
In Cebuano usage, Gomez as a surname developed from the Spanish form Gómez. In English usage, Gomez as a surname has a related form in GAMEZ. In Greek usage, Gomez as a surname is a transliteration of Γομέζ.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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 Gomez
Characters named Gomez: Gomez Addams (The Addams Family).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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