Gómez is a common Spanish patronymic surname meaning "father of Gome". The Portuguese and Old Galician version is Gomes, while the Catalan form is Gomis. The given name Gome is derived from the Visigothic word guma, "man", with multiple Germanic cognates with the same meaning /gomo High Old German gomo, Middle High German gome), which are related to Latin homo, "man".
