Guzman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: apparently composed of the tribal name Gaut (see Joce¬ lyn) + man man
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɣuθman/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Guzman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country, where it is the 6th most common surname.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 141(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 194
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 303
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- #193 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 503 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 141 (inferred from the name graph)
≈300,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gúzman in CR Costa Rica and Guzmán in BO Bolivia.
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)
apparently composed of the tribal name Gaut (see Joce¬ lyn) + man man. Cogn.: Port.: Gusmao. Jewish: Guzman (probably an adoption of the Spanish surname).
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Guzman 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #6 | ≈300,000 est. | ≈1 in 359 | — | Guzman | 177 |
| US United States | #204 | 167,044 | 1 in 2K | 171K | Guzman | 503 |
| CO Colombia | #55 | ≈90,000 est. | ≈1 in 543 | 68 | Guzman | 197 |
| AR Argentina | #73 | 88,207 | 1 in 516 | 88K | Guzman | 144 |
| VE Venezuela | #65 | ≈77,000 est. | ≈1 in 372 | 2.1K | Guzman | 104 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #10 | ≈75,000 est. | ≈1 in 141 | — | Guzman | 104 |
| BO Bolivia | #134 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 319 | — | Guzmán | 82 |
| SV El Salvador | #41 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 194 | — | Guzman | 74 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 23,631 | 1 in 216 | 24K | Gúzman | 102 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #31 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 303 | — | Guzman | 78 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Guzman is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, parently composed of the tribal name Gaut (see Jocelyn) + man man. Godridge, 2 only): Guzzetti see Gucci Gwatkins see Watt Guwer see Gower
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
of uncertain and disputed etymology, probably from a Germanic personal name.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
proprietário; landowner; Toledo
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
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)
- Antonio Guzmán Blancob. 1829VEPresident of Venezuela (1829–1899)
- Jacobo Árbenzb. 1913GTnot in their usual namepresident of Guatemala in 1951–54
- Abimael Guzmánb. 1934PEPeruvian Maoist terrorist leader (1934–2021)
- Patricio Guzmánb. 1941CLChilean film director (born 1941)
- Luis Gómezb. 1956USnot in their usual namePuerto Rican actor
- El Chapob. 1957MXnot in their usual nameMexican drug lord (born 1957)
- Luis Fernando Suárezb. 1959COnot in their usual nameColombian footballer and manager
- Alejandra Guzmánb. 1968MXMexican musician
- Nahuel Guzmánb. 1986ARArgentine association football player
- Ryan Guzmanb. 1987USAmerican actor
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 57 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 171K | #150 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 167K | #154 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 118K | #230 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 88K | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 24K | #87 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 68 | #50 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Where does the name Guzman come from?
- apparently composed of the tribal name Gaut (see Joce¬ lyn) + man man. Cogn.: Port.: Gusmao. Jewish: Guzman (probably an adoption of the Spanish surname). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Guzman?
- A machine transcription gives /ɣuθman/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Guzman mean?
- Recorded meaning: apparently composed of the tribal name Gaut (see Joce¬ lyn) + man man.
- In which country does Guzman have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 304 thousand people named Guzman in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled guzman.
- How common is the name Guzman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 167,044 people named Guzman in 2010, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Guzman compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Guzman is the 6th most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/guzmanThe 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, “Guzman” — the 6th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.