Gómez

For other uses, see Gómez (disambiguation).

Gómez is a common Spanish surname. The Portuguese and Old Galician is Gomes, while the Catalan form is Gomis. The name is usually spelled without the accent in the United States.

It is derived from the given name Gomes which is a loanword of the Visigothic word guma "man". It is itself related to the Common Germanic word guma (Old English guma "man", Middle English gome[1]) / gomo (High Old German gomo "man", Middle High German gome) related to Latin homo "man".[2]

People

Notable people with the surname include:

See also

References

  1. Mossé, Fernand. Manuel de l’anglais du moyen-âge (in French), Tomes I, Aubier Montaigne, 1945. p. 475.
  2. Duden, Das Herkunftswörterbuch: Etymologie der deutschen Sprache (in German), Band 7, Duden Verlag 1989. p. 96. Bräutigam.
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