Giron
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Old Germanic Gero; Old French Geron/Giron; first attested William Gyron 1327 SRWo
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/xjron/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Giron is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Guatemala than in any other country, where it is the 8th most common surname.
- HNHonduras≈1 in 570(inferred from the name graph)
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 575
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 616
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.
- Guatemala (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 337 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 570 (inferred from the name graph)
≈30,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Honduras, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Old Germanic Gero; Old French Geron/Giron; first attested William Gyron 1327 SRWo
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Giron 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GT Guatemala | #8 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 575 | — | Giron | 78 |
| HN Honduras | #70 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 570 | — | Giron | 53 |
| US United States | — | 15,786 | 1 in 21K | 16K | Giron | 337 |
| PE Peru | #332 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Giron | 71 |
| SV El Salvador | #101 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 616 | — | Giron | 49 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 3,999 | 1 in 4.2K | 4K | Giron | 30 |
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; INEC — civil registry 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)
Giron is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, from a medieval nickname Giron, from Galician giron (xiron) ‘hem’, ‘remnant’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Gerona, Cataluña (España); Amsterdam
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Kurdish, Dignified, serious
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In Swedish, indefinite plural of giro
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In se, ptarmigan, Lagopus muta
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Pedro Agustín Girónb. 1778ESSpanish general and politician (1778-1842)
- Charles Gironb. 1850CHSwiss painter (1850-1914)
- Pedro Schwartzb. 1935ESnot in their usual nameSpanish politician and economist
- Carlos Girónb. 1954MXMexican diver (1954–2020)
- Alejandro Gómezb. 1972ESnot in their usual nameSpanish basketball player (born 1972)
- Emiliano Gironb. 1972DODominican baseball player (1972-)
- Orvin Cabrerab. 1977HNnot in their usual nameHonduran footballer (1977-2010)
- Gabriel Enrique Gómezb. 1984PAnot in their usual namePanamanian footballer
- Marcos Gironb. 1993USAmerican tennis player
- Mauricio Ortegab. 1994COnot in their usual nameColombian discus thrower
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 31 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 6
- 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
- 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 Giron?
- A machine transcription gives /xjron/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Giron mean, and where does it come from?
- Old Germanic Gero; Old French Geron/Giron; first attested William Gyron 1327 SRWo Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Giron have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 30 thousand people named Giron in Guatemala, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled giron.
- How common is the name Giron?
- In the United States, the national register counted 15,786 people named Giron in 2010, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
- How common is Giron compared with other names?
- In Guatemala, Giron is the 8th most common surname of 54,341 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gironThe 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, “Giron” — the 8th most common surname in Guatemala. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.