Gomez Family History
Gomez Name Meaning
Spanish (Gómez): from a medieval personal name probably of Visigothic origin from guma ‘man’. Compare De Gomez . Jewish (Sephardic): adoption of the name in 1 above at the moment of conversion to Roman Catholicism. After the return to Judaism (generations later) some Jewish descendants retained the surname that their families had adopted as Roman Catholics.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022