Guimaráes
surname · Latin script
Guimaráes is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: various places, in particular a town in the province of Minho, so called from L (villa) Vimaranis ‘estate of Vimara’, a Gmc personal name probably composed of the elements wig war + marah horse.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
10 other spellings are counted as the same name:
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)
various places, in particular a town in the province of Minho, so called from L (villa) Vimaranis ‘estate of Vimara’, a Gmc personal name probably composed of the elements wig war + marah horse.
Sources 3
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Guimaráes counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1.8K | — |
| UY Uruguay | — | 639 | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 607 | — |
| ES Spain | — | 583 | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 526 | — |
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 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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 Guimaráes mean, and where does it come from?
- various places, in particular a town in the province of Minho, so called from L (villa) Vimaranis ‘estate of Vimara’, a Gmc personal name probably composed of the elements wig war + marah horse. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 1 other source.
- In which country does Guimaráes have the most bearers?
- Guimaráes is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/guimar%C3%A1esThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Guimaráes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.