Guàrdia

surname · Latin script

Guàrdia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Romance languages.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 472K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 4.3K
  • UYUruguay1 in 7.6K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Argentina (measured from records)

10,606 people

Sources
206 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina

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 Guardia in US United States, ES Spain.

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 Romance languages.

Sources 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wiktionary
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Guàrdia 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 Guàrdia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina10,6061 in 4.3K11K—2
ES Spain4,7841 in 10K4.8KGuardia58
BR Brazil1,2791 in 166K1.3K—3
US United States7051 in 472K749Guardia206
CR Costa Rica4861 in 10K486—1
UY Uruguay4461 in 7.6K446——

10,606 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

Guàrdia 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 Guardià, Guárdia, Guardia, Guardía

  • Catalan surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain

    Also written Guardia

  • Spanish surname23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Peru, Spain, Venezuela

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Guardia, Guardiã, Guárdia, Guardià, Guardía

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Philippines, Spain, Indonesia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Guardia

  • Japanese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan, United States, Peru, Spain

    Also written Guardia

6 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Guàrdia is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Catalan, guards

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Francesc Porcell i Guàrdia, b. 1813Francesc Guàrdia i Vial, b. 1880Joan Guàrdia i Olmos, b. 1958Marc Aloy Guàrdia, b. 1979

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 1 sources across 0 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 Guàrdia mean, and where does it come from?
From Romance languages. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
In which country does Guàrdia have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Guàrdia, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Guàrdia most common?
Guàrdia is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.3 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Guàrdia?
In Argentina, the national register counted 10,606 people named Guàrdia, about 1 in 4.3 thousand residents.

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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, “Guàrdia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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