Girón

surname · Latin script

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

Girón is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Guatemala than in any other country, where it is the 8th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Girón.

rarermore common
  • HNHonduras≈1 in 570(inferred from the name graph)
  • GTGuatemala≈1 in 575
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 616

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.

Guatemala (inferred from the name graph)

≈30,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
337 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 570 (inferred from the name graph)

Honduras, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GirónLatin(measured from records)
기론Hangul(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Giron in US United States, PE Peru, SV El Salvador and 3 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)

From Spanish Girón.

Sources 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wiktionary
  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Girón 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 Girón is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GT Guatemala#8≈30,000 est.≈1 in 575—Giron78
HN Honduras#70≈16,000 est.≈1 in 570—Giron53
US United States—15,7861 in 21K16KGiron337
PE Peru#332≈13,000 est.≈1 in 2.4K—Giron71
SV El Salvador#101≈11,000 est.≈1 in 616—Giron49
EC Ecuador—3,9991 in 4.2K4KGiron30

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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INEC — civil registry names. 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)

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

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Gíron, Giron, Giro-N

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Giron

  • Russian surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, United States, Peru

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Гирон, Giron, Гірон, Хирон, Жирон

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Peru, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Giron

  • Norwegian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Denmark, Philippines, Spain

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish

    Also written Giron

23 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)

1700180019002000Pedro Agustín Girón, b. 1778Francisco Javier Girón, b. 1803Pedro Schwartz, b. 1935Carlos Girón, b. 1954Alejandro Gómez, b. 1972Alfredo Girón Sopeña, b. 1975Orvin Cabrera, b. 1977Gabriel Enrique Gómez, b. 1984Tomás Girón, b. 1992Mauricio Ortega, b. 1994

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Girón mean, and where does it come from?
From Spanish Girón. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
In which country does Girón have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 30 thousand people named Girón in Guatemala, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled giron.
How common is the name Girón?
In the United States, the national register counted 15,786 people named Girón in 2010, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
How common is Girón compared with other names?
In Guatemala, Girón is the 8th most common surname of 54,341 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, “Girón” — the 8th most common surname in Guatemala. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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