Guzmań

surname · Latin script

Guzmań is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country, where it is the 41st most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Guzmán, from Gothic.

  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 120(inferred from the name graph)
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 180
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 216

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Guzmań itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Mexico (inferred from the name graph)

≈490,000 people, est.

#193 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames, spellings grouped

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
503 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 122 (inferred from the name graph)

Dominican Republic, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
GuzmańLatin(measured from records)
ГусманCyrillic(measured from records)
გუზმანGeorgian(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Guzman in MX Mexico, US United States, PH Philippines and 3 more, 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)

From Spanish Guzmán, from Gothic.

Cited for this meaning 5

  • 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
  • Wiktionary
  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Guzmań is found

(measured from records)

Guzmań 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 Guzmań is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico#41≈490,000 est.≈1 in 2689.6KGuzman260
PH Philippines#6≈290,000 est.≈1 in 400—Guzman177
US United States#204167,0441 in 2K171KGuzman503
CO Colombia#55≈130,000 est.≈1 in 40468Guzman197
DO Dominican Republic#10≈94,000 est.≈1 in 122—Guzman104
BO Bolivia#134≈49,000 est.≈1 in 253—Guzmán82
SV El Salvador#41≈34,000 est.≈1 in 184—Guzman74
CR Costa Rica—23,6311 in 21624KGúzman102

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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Guzmań is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Guzman, Gúzman, Guzmán, Guzmän, Guzmân

1 further group 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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Guzmań under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Guzmań mean, and where does it come from?
From Spanish Guzmán, from Gothic. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 3 other sources.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Guzmań?
Mondonomo estimates about 488 thousand people named Guzmań in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled guzman. After it come Philippines, United States, Colombia and Dominican Republic; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Guzmań?
In the United States, the national register counted 167,044 people named Guzmań in 2010, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
How common is Guzmań compared with other names?
In Mexico, Guzmań is the 41st most common surname of 206,803 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, “Guzmań” — the 41st most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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