Guajardo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: unexplained. Perhaps a habitational name from a place so named in Estremadura
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɡwaxardo/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Guajardo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country.
- CLChile≈1 in 1K(inferred from the name graph)
- MXMexico≈1 in 5.5K
- ARArgentina1 in 6.3K
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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 322 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 999 (inferred from the name graph)
≈24,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)unexplained. Perhaps a habitational name from a place so named in Estremadura. This name is common in Argentina, Chile, and Mexico.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Guajardo is found
(measured from records)Guajardo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #551 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | 474 | Guajardo | 174 |
| CL Chile | #180 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 999 | — | Guajardo | 121 |
| US United States | — | 13,438 | 1 in 25K | 13K | Guajardo | 322 |
| AR Argentina | #673 | 7,189 | 1 in 6.3K | 7.2K | Guajardo | 59 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Guajardo | 26 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Guajardo | 7 |
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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Rafael Aguilar Guajardob. 1955MXMexican drug lord
- Michelle Forbesb. 1965USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Fabiola Guajardob. 1988MXMexican actress and model
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Guajardo come from?
- unexplained. Perhaps a habitational name from a place so named in Estremadura. This name is common in Argentina, Chile, and Mexico. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Guajardo?
- In Spanish /ɡwaxardo/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Guajardo mean?
- Recorded meaning: unexplained. Perhaps a habitational name from a place so named in Estremadura.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Guajardo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named Guajardo in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled guajardo. After it come Chile, United States, Argentina and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Guajardo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 13,438 people named Guajardo in 2010, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
- How common is Guajardo compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Guajardo is the 551st most common surname of 206,803 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/guajardoThe 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, “Guajardo” — the 551st most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.