Gonzalo
Gonzalo was given to 127 boys in 2025, #1,423 among boys’ names; 11,010 Americans have been recorded with it since 1902 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,230 Americans named Gonzalo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 17 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gonzalo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gonzalo mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Gonzalo is “a male given name from Spanish.”
Borrowed from Spanish Gonzalo.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gonzalo?
#1,423 among boys’ names, 2025
Gonzalo fell from #1,125 in 2015 to #1,423 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 88.7 to 74.4 per million.
254 babies in 2000, the peak
Gonzalo peaked in 2000, when 254 boys were given it, #694 among boys’ names. The 127 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 127 | #1,423 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 123 | #1,474 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 138 | #1,362 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 117 | #1,534 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 138 | #1,342 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 107 | #1,543 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 123 | #1,422 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 135 | #1,335 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 122 | #1,424 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 136 | #1,320 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (118)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 170 | #1,125 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 148 | #1,229 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 147 | #1,223 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 137 | #1,282 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 148 | #1,195 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 146 | #1,215 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 172 | #1,078 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 167 | #1,102 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 205 | #963 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 208 | #918 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 216 | #851 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 207 | #857 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 207 | #839 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 242 | #729 | 0.12 |
| 2001 | 213 | #793 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 254 | #694 | 0.13 |
| 1999 | 179 | #844 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 160 | #901 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 202 | #741 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 185 | #785 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 187 | #780 | 0.10 |
| 1994 | 207 | #728 | 0.11 |
| 1993 | 199 | #736 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 199 | #733 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 184 | #748 | 0.09 |
| 1990 | 174 | #767 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 158 | #787 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 144 | #789 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 126 | #829 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 134 | #784 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 127 | #789 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 134 | #750 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 94 | #912 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 127 | #780 | 0.07 |
| 1981 | 131 | #763 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 123 | #791 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 94 | #904 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 96 | #878 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 92 | #887 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 95 | #856 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 91 | #870 | 0.06 |
| 1974 | 101 | #797 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 95 | #813 | 0.06 |
| 1972 | 87 | #862 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 84 | #890 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 83 | #889 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 60 | #994 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 77 | #833 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 64 | #903 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 73 | #851 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 67 | #904 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 69 | #915 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 63 | #950 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 60 | #990 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 60 | #1,006 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 70 | #905 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 64 | #966 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 65 | #945 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 68 | #920 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 49 | #1,085 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 50 | #1,068 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 61 | #947 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 73 | #842 | 0.04 |
| 1952 | 53 | #987 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 50 | #998 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 52 | #962 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 53 | #948 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 49 | #1,009 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 52 | #987 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 44 | #1,034 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 52 | #867 | 0.04 |
| 1944 | 38 | #1,074 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 31 | #1,244 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 29 | #1,307 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 30 | #1,217 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 55 | #852 | 0.05 |
| 1939 | 26 | #1,307 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 62 | #782 | 0.06 |
| 1937 | 31 | #1,194 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 42 | #956 | 0.04 |
| 1935 | 48 | #918 | 0.05 |
| 1934 | 49 | #901 | 0.05 |
| 1933 | 49 | #890 | 0.05 |
| 1932 | 32 | #1,205 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 47 | #965 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 55 | #901 | 0.05 |
| 1929 | 52 | #934 | 0.05 |
| 1928 | 47 | #1,010 | 0.04 |
| 1927 | 60 | #877 | 0.05 |
| 1926 | 46 | #1,023 | 0.04 |
| 1925 | 47 | #1,003 | 0.04 |
| 1924 | 44 | #1,078 | 0.04 |
| 1923 | 46 | #1,045 | 0.04 |
| 1922 | 25 | #1,524 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 20 | #1,792 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 21 | #1,717 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,657 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 24 | #1,510 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 17 | #1,848 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 16 | #1,883 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,229 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 12 | #1,907 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,004 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 8 | #1,949 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,846 | 0.02 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,686 | 0.03 |
| 1908 | 5 | #1,473 | 0.03 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,204 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Gonzalo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gonzalo has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 118 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gonzalo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gonzalo, and how old are they?
9,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 84% of the 11,010 Americans ever recorded as Gonzalo. The median Gonzalo alive today is 29 years old; half are between 17 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 22,281 people named Gonzalo (55 women and girls, 22,226 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,829 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 141 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 740 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,230 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,390 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,010 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,720 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Gonzalo born?
The states with the most babies named Gonzalo are California, Texas and Arizona, with 84% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 34 | #759 | 3.0× |
| Texas | 27 | #919 | 3.4× |
| Arizona | 9 | #691 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,530 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,183 | 0.7× |
Where Gonzalo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gonzalo is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 3.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Gonzalo with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Gonzalo
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Gonzalo and names like it
- Compare Gonzalo and BaltazarBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sGonzalo peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gonzalo since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Gonzalo: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Gonzalo.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Gonzalo alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.