Gutierrez
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: Gutierre, from a Visigothic personal name of uncertain form and meaning, perhaps a cpd of the elements gunpi battle + hairus sword. Guralnick see Gorelik Gutsch see Gottschalk Gurdon see Gordon
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/gutiɛɾɛs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gutierrez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 90th most common surname.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 69(inferred from the name graph)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 88
- BOBolivia≈1 in 122
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #101 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 526 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 69 (inferred from the name graph)
293,218 people, 2010
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Gutiérrez in CR Costa Rica, BO Bolivia and Gutièrrez in UY Uruguay.
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)
‘Son of Gutierre’, a medieval Spanish name of Germanic origin, perhaps meaning ‘battle-sword’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
How Gutierrez is read(measured from records)
Gutierrez is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish74%
Gutierre, from a Visigothic personal name of uncertain form and meaning, perhaps a cpd of the elements gunpi battle + hairus sword. Guralnick see Gorelik Gutsch see Gottschalk Gurdon see Gordon
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- English15%
‘Son of Gutierre’, a medieval Spanish name of Germanic origin, perhaps meaning ‘battle-sword’.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gutierrez 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #90 | 293,218 | 1 in 1.1K | 293K | Gutierrez | 526 |
| CO Colombia | #17 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 241 | 163 | Gutierrez | 226 |
| ES Spain | #19 | 199,928 | 1 in 250 | 200K | Gutierrez | 247 |
| AR Argentina | #24 | 177,867 | 1 in 256 | 178K | Gutierrez | 153 |
| VE Venezuela | #23 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 172 | 953 | Gutierrez | 125 |
| BO Bolivia | #89 | ≈95,000 est. | ≈1 in 122 | — | Gutiérrez | 98 |
| NI Nicaragua | #4 | ≈89,000 est. | ≈1 in 69 | — | Gutierrez | 85 |
| CR Costa Rica | #258 | 57,773 | 1 in 88 | 58K | Gutiérrez | 137 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 27,757 | 1 in 122 | 28K | Gutièrrez | 99 |
293,218 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Gutierrez 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.
patronymic from the medieval personal name Gutierre, from a Visigothic personal name of uncertain form and meaning, perhaps a compound of the elements gunpi ‘battle’ + hairus ‘sword’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Alberto Kordab. 1928CUnot in their usual nameCuban photographer (1928–2001)
- Isabel Allendeb. 1942CLnot in their usual nameChilean writer (born 1942)
- Arturo Pérez-Reverteb. 1951ESnot in their usual nameSpanish writer and journalist
- Rey Mysterio Jrb. 1974USnot in their usual nameAmerican professional wrestler
- Gutib. 1976ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer and football manager
- William Levyb. 1980CUnot in their usual nameCuban actor
- Quim Gutiérrezb. 1981ESSpanish actor
- Natti Natashab. 1986DOnot in their usual nameDominican singer (born 1986)
- Rubén Pardob. 1992ESnot in their usual nameSpanish soccer player
- Ayoze Pérezb. 1993ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 52 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 293K | #67 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 275K | #70 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 213K | #96 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 200K | #19 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 200K | #19 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 178K | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 58K | #26 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 28K | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 163 | #18 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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
- How do you pronounce Gutierrez?
- A machine transcription gives /gutiɛɾɛs/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Where does the name Gutierrez come from?
- ‘Son of Gutierre’, a medieval Spanish name of Germanic origin, perhaps meaning ‘battle-sword’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- What does the name Gutierrez mean?
- In Spanish, Gutierre, from a Visigothic personal name of uncertain form and meaning, perhaps a cpd of the elements gunpi battle + hairus sword. Guralnick see Gorelik Gutsch see Gottschalk Gurdon see Gordon
- In which country does Gutierrez have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 293 thousand people named Gutierrez, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gutierrez.
- How common is the name Gutierrez?
- In the United States, the national register counted 293,218 people named Gutierrez in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Gutierrez compared with other names?
- In the United States, Gutierrez is the 90th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gutierrezThe 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, “Gutierrez” — the 90th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.