Garduño

surname · Latin script

Meaning: thief

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/gaɾðuɲo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Garduño is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 48K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 58K
  • BOBolivia≈1 in 35K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈16,000 people, est.

Sources
255 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)

Bolivia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Garduno in US United States, GT Guatemala, BO Bolivia and 2 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

thief

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Garduño counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Garduño is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈16,000 est.≈1 in 88K—Garduno3
US United States—6,9121 in 48K6.9KGarduno255
ES Spain—8661 in 58K866Garduño48
AO Angola—≈500 est.≈1 in 65K—Garduno2
GT Guatemala—≈450 est.≈1 in 39K—Garduno5
BO Bolivia—≈330 est.≈1 in 35K—Garduno2
MX Mexico#524——594Garduño135

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Garduño is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Gardun̄o, Garduno, Garduńo, Garduňo

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Mali

    Also written Garduno

  • Russian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Garduno, Гардуно

  • Turkish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Garduno, Gardunó

  • Romanian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Garduno

20 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Alfredo Tena, b. 1956Flor Garduño, b. 1957Luis Fernando Tena, b. 1958Fernando Garduño, b. 1958Patricia Garduño, b. 1960Moisés Garduño, b. 1971Joaquín Moreno, b. 1973Miguel Garduño, b. 1991

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalEstimado Sr. Garduño,Dear Mr Garduño, (English)
InformalHola Garduño,Hi Garduño, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Garduño mean, and where does it come from?
thief Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Garduño?
A machine transcription gives /gaɾðuɲo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Garduño have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Garduño in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled garduno.
How common is the name Garduño?
In the United States, the national register counted 6,912 people named Garduño in 2010, about 1 in 48 thousand residents.
How common is Garduño compared with other names?
In Mexico, Garduño is the 524th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Garduño” — the 524th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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