Spanish names that start with 'G'

Spanish names that start with ‘G’ include options like Guillermo, Gustavo, and Gonzalo for boys, alongside choices like Gloria, Graciela, and Gabriela for girls.

And plenty more that we shall see below.

Spanish girl names that start with 'G'

• Gloria
• Graciela
• Gabriela
• Gema
• Genara
• Gisela
• Giselle
• Gladis
• Gladys
• Gracia
• Grecia
• Genoveva
• Garbiñe
• Georgina
• Griselda
• Guadalupe
• Guillermina
• Gertrudis

Spanish female name	Corresponding English name
Gracia	Grace
Guillermina	Wilhelmina (feminine form of Wilhelm or William)
Gertrudis	Gertrude
Gabriela	Gabriella
Gisela	Giselle
Genoveva	Genevieve

Notes:

• Gloria is a female name derived from the Latin word “gloria,” which means “glory.”
• Genara is the feminine form of the Spanish male name Genaro. Both these names originate from the Latin word “Janus” which refers to the god of beginnings and gates in Roman mythology. The English word “January” (the first month of the year) is also derived from the Latin word “Janus.”
• Garbiñe is a name that comes from the Basque word “garbi” (which means “pure”). Basque is a language from the Basque region which spans parts of northern Spain and Southwestern France. It is not uncommon for some Basque names to enter the Spanish language.
• In addition to its use as a female name, Guadalupe has also been used as a male name. An example is Guadalupe Victoria (he was the first president of Mexico).

Spanish boy names that start with 'G'

• Guillermo
• Gonzalo
• Gilberto
• Gustavo
• Gabriel
• Gael
• Galo
• Gaspar
• Genaro
• Generoso
• Gerardo
• Germán
• Ginés
• Godofredo
• Goyo
• Gregorio
• Guadalupe
• Gualberto
• Gastón
• Gamaliel

Some of the Spanish male names listed above, such as Gonzalo, Guadalupe, and Generoso, don’t have widely recognizable English equivalents, whereas some others do (see table below).

Spanish male name	Corresponding English name
Guillermo	William
Gilberto	Gilbert
Gaspar	Caspar, Jasper
Gerardo	Gerard
Gregorio	Gregory

Many Spanish male names that start with ‘G’ originate from Germanic languages. Examples include names like Guillermo, Gilberto, Gustavo, Gerardo, Gualberto, and Gonzalo.

Despite their Germanic origin, these names have been adapted to a distinctive spelling characteristic of the Spanish language (as well as of Italian), which features endings in ‘o’ that are not present in their equivalents among modern Germanic languages.

Guillermo (the Spanish equivalent of the English name William) starts with a ‘G’ and not a ‘W’. The difference in spelling makes sense given that the letter ‘w’ is rarely used in Spanish aside from a few loanwords like “web.”

Gonzalo is a Spanish male name that may have arisen from the same ancient Germanic root as Günther, a name found in modern German.

Of course, Spanish male names that start with ‘G’ don’t all come from Germanic languages. Some of these names, like Gabriel, Gaspar, and Gamaliel, are related to Biblical Hebrew.

Famous individuals with Spanish first names that begin with ‘G’

A famous namesake can make a name more appealing and provide a source of inspiration.

Well-known individuals with Spanish first names that start with ‘G’ include Gabriel García Márquez, the Nobel Prize-winning author of the novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” and many other public personalities and historical figures, some of whom appear in the table below.

Individual	Occupation
Gabriel García Márquez	Colombian author who wrote the novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and won the Nobel Prize in Literature
Guillermo del Toro	Mexican film director
Gloria Estefan	Cuban-American singer
Gael García Bernal	Mexican actor
Gastón Acurio	Peruvian culinary chef
Guadalupe Victoria	First President of Mexico
Gustavo Cerati	Musician from Argentina who played in the rock band “Soda Stereo”
Graciela Iturbide	Mexican photographer
Gaspar Noé	Filmmaker from Argentina
Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada	16th-century Spanish conquistador
Gonzalo de Berceo	Spanish poet from the Middle Ages