González
/ɡɒnˈzɑːlɪz/noun
A Spanish patronymic surname meaning a descendant or son of Gonzalo.
Did you know?González comes from Gonzalo, a medieval Iberian form of the Germanic name Gundisalvus, whose first element referred to war or battle.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*gunþiz
“War or battle; the ancestral element behind the first part of Gonzalo’s name”
Visigothic Period
Germanic
Gundisalvus
“A Germanic personal name adopted and Latinized in the Iberian Peninsula”
Early Medieval Latin
Latin
Gundisalvus
“The Latinized form used in documents and ecclesiastical records”
Medieval Iberia
Old Spanish
Gonzalo
“The Spanish personal name descended from Gundisalvus”
12th–13th Century
Spanish
González
“A patronymic form meaning son or descendant of Gonzalo”
Modern English
English
González
“A widely used Spanish-language surname”