Given name & surname

Goncalves

Goncalves is a surname from Portuguese.

Original PortugueseGonçalves

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Goncalves comes from Portuguese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Portuguese Gonçalves.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Goncalves’s family of names

In English usage, Goncalves as a surname was borrowed from the Portuguese form Gonçalves.

Walk Goncalves’s family in the name graph

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The ring: across languages.

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