In 2025, 127 US boys were named Gonzalo, making it the 1,423rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 51 places from #1,474 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 123 boys named Gonzalo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #695, reached in 2000. That year also had the most boys given the name: 254. For comparison, it was #1,125 in 2015 and #963 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gonzalo in 118 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1902 with 5 babies. In all, 11,010 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,091 babies named Gonzalo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,266 US boys were named Gonzalo; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 138. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,449 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Gonzalo ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #691 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Gonsalo are summarised on this page.