Guillén

surname · Latin script

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

Guillén is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country. In Honduras it is the 80th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Guillén. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .

rarermore common
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 493(measured from records)
  • HNHonduras≈1 in 635
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 667

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.

Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)

≈43,000 people, est.

#957 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
359 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 493 (inferred from the name graph)

Costa Rica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GuillénLatin(measured from records)
ГильенCyrillic(measured from records)
กิลเลนThai(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Guillen in US United States, PE Peru, VE Venezuela and 4 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 Guillén. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .

Sources 2

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Guillén 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 Guillén is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VE Venezuela#118≈43,000 est.≈1 in 667—Guillen75
ES Spain#12133,6731 in 1.5K34KGuillen181
US United States—30,1531 in 11K30KGuillen359
PE Peru#148≈27,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Guillen99
HN Honduras#80≈15,000 est.≈1 in 635—Guillen58
CR Costa Rica#11110,3451 in 49310KGuillen79
SV El Salvador#112≈9,200 est.≈1 in 701—Guillen51
UY Uruguay—3,7521 in 9033.8K—43

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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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)

Guillén is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Guillen, Guillèn

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Peru, Andorra

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Guillen, Guillèn

  • Swedish surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Spain, Denmark

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Guillen, Gùillên, Guîllén

  • Finnish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Finland, Peru

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Guillen, Guillèn

30 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)

1850190019502000Florencio Harmodio Arosemena, b. 1872Jorge Guillén, b. 1893Nicolás Guillén, b. 1902Fernando Guillén Gallego, b. 1931Subcomandante Marcos, b. 1957Fernando Guillén Cuervo, b. 1963Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, b. 1967Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, b. 1969Vicente Rodríguez Guillén, b. 1981Harvey Guillén, b. 1990

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 7 sources across 2 countries.

Reference works 5

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Guillén mean, and where does it come from?
From Spanish Guillén. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos . Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
In which country does Guillén have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 43 thousand people named Guillén in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled guillen.
Where is Guillén most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Guillén is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 493 people — even though Venezuela holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Guillén?
In Spain, the national register counted 33,673 people named Guillén, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
How common is Guillén compared with other names?
In Venezuela, Guillén is the 118th most common surname of 83,461 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, “Guillén” — the 118th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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