Gómez
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) / gomo (High Old German gomo "man", Middle High German gome) related to Latin homo "man".
People
Notable people with the surname include:
Arthur Gómez (born 1984), Gambian footballer
Bolívar Gómez (born 1977), Ecuadorian footballer
Camilo Gómez (born 1984), Colombian road cyclist
Camilo Gomez (born 1960), American physician
Carlos Gómez (born 1985), Dominican baseball player
Emmanuel Gómez (born 1990), Gambian footballer
Francis Gómez (born 1968), Venezuelan judoka
Francisco Javier Gómez Noya, Spanish triathlete
George Gomez (born 1955), Cuban-American industrial designer
Ignacio Gómez (born c. 1962), Colombian journalist
Jaime Luis Gomez (born 1975), American rapper and actor
