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Gonçalo

“warrior”

masculineLatin script

/ɡõˈsa.lu/ · Portuguese (Brazil)

Origin: Not established
4 language contexts: French Spanish Portuguese +1 more
Follow the evidence: 9 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Gonçalo

Gonçalo is a masculine given name documented in French, Spanish, Portuguese and 1 other language. Portuguese Wiktionary gives the meaning “warrior”.

Separate records with matching spellings: Goncalo (st-2135344a12)

3 source accounts

Meaning in the sources

Source-reported

Meaning: “warrior”

Apparenté à Gonzalo en espagnol.

Sources for this account (7)

French Wiktionary: GonçaloCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikidata Q18699663CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: GonçaloCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: GonçaloCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Turkish Wiktionary: GonçaloCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Chinese Wiktionary: GonçaloCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary (pt): GonçaloCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Explore 2 more accountsHide additional accountsSource accounts may describe the same origin.

Polish Wiktionary accountSource-reportedport. Gonçalvo

port. Gonçalvo

Sources for this account (1)

Polish Wiktionary: GonçaloCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Portuguese Wiktionary accountSource-reportedÉ uma corruptela de Gonçalvo que veio do latim Gonsalvus, variante de Gundisalvus que veio do germânico gunþisalbō, gunþis- (disposição) e -salbō (luta).…

É uma corruptela de Gonçalvo que veio do latim Gonsalvus, variante de Gundisalvus que veio do germânico gunþisalbō, gunþis- (disposição) e -salbō (luta). Significa homem disposto para toda a espécie de luta, ou dito de forma mais sintética, guerreiro.

Sources for this account (1)

Portuguese Wiktionary: GonçaloCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Documented usage

View usage notes (5)

Masculine usage · Wikidata Q18699663
Masculine usage in Portuguese · Wiktionary: Gonçalo
Masculine usage in Danish · Greek Wiktionary: Gonçalo
Masculine usage in Spanish · Greek Wiktionary: Gonçalo
Masculine usage in French · French Wiktionary: Gonçalo

Explore all 4 language contexts

Linguistic usage labels come from name dictionaries. They are separate from the sex categories recorded in statistical files.

Spelling and script

Written form “Gonçalo” in the Latin script. Wikidata item Q18699663.

Transliterations (search aids): Гонсалу, Гонса́лу, גונסלו.

All pronunciation details (4)

/ɡõˈsa.lu/ — Portuguese (Brazil)
/ɡõˈsa.lu/ — Portuguese (Portugal)
/\gõ.ˈsa.lu\/ — Portuguese
/\gõ.ˈsa.lʊ\/ — Portuguese

02 / Across borders

Where Gonçalo is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

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countries in our sources

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4 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

France

Statistics + language records

France (France métropolitaine et départements-régions d'outre-mer; avant 2012 France hors Mayotte), 2025: 5 boys (rank 5121). Documented as a given name in French.

Explore France

4 of 10 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

Switzerland

2000–2025 Spelling: Gonçalo

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 2025: 9; births; Rank #719
Peak year: 2016; 33 births

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Source: Federal Statistical Office · Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025

Published integer counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Gonçalo in Switzerland, boys: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Status
2000	no value	no value	not covered
2001	2	958	observed
2002	2	1,021	observed
2003	7	615	observed
2004	11	501	observed
2005	12	479	observed
2006	15	431	observed
2007	13	470	observed
2008	21	329	observed
2009	20	378	observed
2010	21	354	observed
2011	23	341	observed
2012	11	605	observed
2013	28	293	observed
2014	20	395	observed
2015	25	345	observed
2016	33	273	observed
2017	20	411	observed
2018	31	289	observed
2019	18	427	observed
2020	13	586	observed
2021	11	667	observed
2022	17	448	observed
2023	14	510	observed
2024	6	957	observed
2025	9	719	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Gonçalo” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: Annual first given names of newborns, BEVNAT live-birth statistics, national geography 8100 only. Infostar civil-register data. Regional rows are not added to national totals.
Rounding: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names and cells published in the FSO flows are covered. Literal zero cells are not emitted; absence in NameStoria must not be treated as a complete national zero-frequency claim.
Ranking: FSO RANK observations retained unchanged; zero rank/count pairs omitted.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution)

Read our methodology

04 / Through time

History

Historical scholarship

Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.

1884From the archives
Gonçalo
Gonçalo, _m._ _Port._ Teu. 363
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian Names · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Gonçalo Ramos
born 2001
Portuguese footballer (born 2001)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Gonçalo Guedes
born 1996
Portuguese footballer (born 1996)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Gonçalo Inácio
born 2001
Portuguese footballer (born 2001)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Gonçalo Paciência
born 1994
Portuguese footballer
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Gonçalo Velho
died 1460
Portuguese nobleman and explorer
Wikipedia Wikidata source

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

Take the story of Gonçalo with you. Create a personal name passport with its meaning, roots and connections.

06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms8

Wikidata Q18699663CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: GonçaloCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: GonçaloCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: GonçaloCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: GonçaloCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Chinese Wiktionary: GonçaloCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary (pt): GonçaloCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Polish Wiktionary: GonçaloCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Historical referencesOriginal texts and their publication details1

Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian NamesPublic domain (Project Gutenberg) · rev. 2023-03-30 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates4

Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025
Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Switzerland · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution) · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Portugal — annual Top 20 registered given names, 2017–2023
Instituto dos Registos e do Notariado (IRN), Portugal · Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike (publisher does not specify a version) · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

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About Gonçalo

Gonçalo is a masculine given name documented in French, Spanish, Portuguese and 1 other language. Portuguese Wiktionary gives the meaning “warrior”.

Separate records with matching spellings: Goncalo (st-2135344a12)

3 source accounts

Meaning in the sources

Source-reported

Meaning: “warrior”

Apparenté à Gonzalo en espagnol.

Sources for this account (7)

French Wiktionary: GonçaloCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikidata Q18699663CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: GonçaloCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: GonçaloCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Turkish Wiktionary: GonçaloCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Chinese Wiktionary: GonçaloCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary (pt): GonçaloCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Explore 2 more accountsHide additional accountsSource accounts may describe the same origin.

Polish Wiktionary accountSource-reportedport. Gonçalvo

port. Gonçalvo

Sources for this account (1)

Polish Wiktionary: GonçaloCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Sources for this account (1)

Portuguese Wiktionary: GonçaloCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Documented usage

View usage notes (5)

Masculine usage · Wikidata Q18699663
Masculine usage in Portuguese · Wiktionary: Gonçalo
Masculine usage in Danish · Greek Wiktionary: Gonçalo
Masculine usage in Spanish · Greek Wiktionary: Gonçalo
Masculine usage in French · French Wiktionary: Gonçalo

Explore all 4 language contexts

Linguistic usage labels come from name dictionaries. They are separate from the sex categories recorded in statistical files.

Spelling and script

Written form “Gonçalo” in the Latin script. Wikidata item Q18699663.

Transliterations (search aids): Гонсалу, Гонса́лу, גונסלו.

All pronunciation details (4)

/ɡõˈsa.lu/ — Portuguese (Brazil)
/ɡõˈsa.lu/ — Portuguese (Portugal)
/\gõ.ˈsa.lu\/ — Portuguese
/\gõ.ˈsa.lʊ\/ — Portuguese

Where Gonçalo is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Gonçalo’s connections around the world.

4 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

France

Statistics + language records

France (France métropolitaine et départements-régions d'outre-mer; avant 2012 France hors Mayotte), 2025: 5 boys (rank 5121). Documented as a given name in French.

Explore France

4 of 10 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

Switzerland

2000–2025 Spelling: Gonçalo

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 2025: 9; births; Rank #719
Peak year: 2016; 33 births

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: Federal Statistical Office · Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025

Published integer counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Gonçalo in Switzerland, boys: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Status
2000	no value	no value	not covered
2001	2	958	observed
2002	2	1,021	observed
2003	7	615	observed
2004	11	501	observed
2005	12	479	observed
2006	15	431	observed
2007	13	470	observed
2008	21	329	observed
2009	20	378	observed
2010	21	354	observed
2011	23	341	observed
2012	11	605	observed
2013	28	293	observed
2014	20	395	observed
2015	25	345	observed
2016	33	273	observed
2017	20	411	observed
2018	31	289	observed
2019	18	427	observed
2020	13	586	observed
2021	11	667	observed
2022	17	448	observed
2023	14	510	observed
2024	6	957	observed
2025	9	719	observed

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: Annual first given names of newborns, BEVNAT live-birth statistics, national geography 8100 only. Infostar civil-register data. Regional rows are not added to national totals.
Rounding: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names and cells published in the FSO flows are covered. Literal zero cells are not emitted; absence in NameStoria must not be treated as a complete national zero-frequency claim.
Ranking: FSO RANK observations retained unchanged; zero rank/count pairs omitted.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution)

Read our methodology

History

Historical scholarship

Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.

1884From the archives
Gonçalo
Gonçalo, _m._ _Port._ Teu. 363
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian Names · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Gonçalo Ramos
born 2001
Portuguese footballer (born 2001)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Gonçalo Guedes
born 1996
Portuguese footballer (born 1996)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Gonçalo Inácio
born 2001
Portuguese footballer (born 2001)
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Gonçalo Paciência
born 1994
Portuguese footballer
Wikipedia Wikidata source
Gonçalo Velho
died 1460
Portuguese nobleman and explorer
Wikipedia Wikidata source

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms8

Wikidata Q18699663CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: GonçaloCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: GonçaloCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: GonçaloCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Turkish Wiktionary: GonçaloCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Chinese Wiktionary: GonçaloCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary (pt): GonçaloCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Polish Wiktionary: GonçaloCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Historical referencesOriginal texts and their publication details1

Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Glossary of Christian NamesPublic domain (Project Gutenberg) · rev. 2023-03-30 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates4

Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025
Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Switzerland · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution) · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Portugal — annual Top 20 registered given names, 2017–2023
Instituto dos Registos e do Notariado (IRN), Portugal · Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike (publisher does not specify a version) · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

A story to pass on.

About Gonçalo

Meaning in the sources

Where Gonçalo is used

Across borders

France

Popularity over time

Switzerland

History

Historical scholarship

Notable bearers

Gonçalo Ramos

Gonçalo Guedes

Gonçalo Inácio

Gonçalo Paciência

Gonçalo Velho

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Gonçalo

Meaning in the sources

Where Gonçalo is used

Across borders

France

Popularity over time

Switzerland

History

Historical scholarship

Notable bearers

Gonçalo Ramos

Gonçalo Guedes

Gonçalo Inácio

Gonçalo Paciência

Gonçalo Velho

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page