Guariño
surname · Latin script
Guariño is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Germanic *Warino, hypocoristic from warin ‘protección’; related to names like Waringari and Warinhari. Guariño is also written Γκουαρινο in Greek.
- ITItaly≈1 in 3K(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 4.2K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 16K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 339 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Guariño in other scripts: Greek
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Guarino in US United States, PH Philippines, GB United Kingdom and 5 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)Germanic *Warino, hypocoristic from warin ‘protección’; related to names like Waringari and Warinhari.
Cited for this meaning 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Guariño is found
(measured from records)Guariño 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | listed | Guarino | 77 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Guarino | 64 |
| US United States | — | 6,775 | 1 in 49K | 6.8K | Guarino | 339 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,161 | 1 in 98K | 2.2K | Guarino | 77 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Guarino | 80 |
| UY Uruguay | #712 | 814 | 1 in 4.2K | 814 | Guarino | 37 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 330 | 1 in 25K | 330 | Guarino | 15 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Guarino | 1 |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Guariño mean, and where does it come from?
- Germanic *Warino, hypocoristic from warin ‘protección’; related to names like Waringari and Warinhari. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 6 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Guariño?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Guariño in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled guarino. After it come Philippines, United States, Brazil and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Guariño?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,775 people named Guariño in 2010, about 1 in 49 thousand residents.
- How common is Guariño compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Guariño is the 712th most common surname of 57,630 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, “Guariño” — the 712th most common surname in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.