Laguardia
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A surname from the Romance languages
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Laguardia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 25K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 240K
- UYUruguay1 in 14K
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)
- Sources
- 233 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the definite article la + guardia ‘lookout (tower)’, a topographic name for someone who lived near a watchtower or an occupational name for someone who kept watch.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Laguardia is read(measured from records)
Laguardia 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.
- English55%
A surname from the Romance languages.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish32%
from the definite article la + guardia ‘lookout (tower)’, a topographic name for someone who lived near a watchtower or an occupational name for someone who kept watch.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
habitational name from Laguardia in Araba province, Basque Country, or Vitoria province.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Laguardia 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 | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Laguardia | 45 |
| US United States | 1,388 | 1 in 240K | 1.4K | Laguardia | 233 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 55K | listed | Laguardia | 19 |
| ES Spain | 446 | 1 in 112K | 446 | Laguardia | 15 |
| BR Brazil | 401 | 1 in 528K | 401 | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | 240 | 1 in 14K | 240 | — | — |
| LA Laos | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 103K | — | Laguardia | 2 |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)
Laguardia 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.
In Italian, var. justaposta de La Guardia
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes 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)
- Fiorello H. La Guardiab. 1882USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician; 99th Mayor of New York City (1934–45)
- Eloy Laguardiab. 1927ESSpanish painter (1927–2015)
- Jorge Mario García Laguardiab. 1931GTGuatemalan jurist (1931-2021)
- Amalia Laguardiab. 1937botanical collector (1937 - )
- Massimo Laguardiab. 1961ITItalian percussionist and singer
- Jorge LaguardiaESSpanish painter, active second half 19th century
- Cheryl LaGuardiaUSlibrarian
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 23 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,184 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,469 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,055 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 446 | #8,785 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 446 | #8,775 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 401 | #20,685 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 240 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Laguardia come from?
- from the definite article la + guardia ‘lookout (tower)’, a topographic name for someone who lived near a watchtower or an occupational name for someone who kept watch. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Laguardia mean?
- In English, A surname from the Romance languages.
- In which country does Laguardia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.3 thousand people named Laguardia in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled laguardia.
- Where is Laguardia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Laguardia is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Laguardia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,388 people named Laguardia in 2010, about 1 in 240 thousand residents.
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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, “Laguardia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.