Gualda
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: weld, dyer's rocket
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/gwalda/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gualda is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 37K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 142K
- BRBrazil1 in 359K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- 1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
inflection of gualdir:
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Gualda is read(measured from records)
Gualda is one spelling over 4 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.
- Spanish60%
weld, dyer's rocket
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese24%
inflection of gualdir:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English6.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Gualda in English.
- French5.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Gualda in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Gualda 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 646K | — | Gualda | 1 |
| ES Spain | 1,338 | 1 in 37K | 1.3K | Gualda | 86 |
| BR Brazil | 589 | 1 in 359K | 589 | Gualda | 67 |
| AR Argentina | 320 | 1 in 142K | 320 | Gualda | 28 |
| PH Philippines | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Gualda | 4 |
| CL Chile | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 351K | 2 | Gualda | 20 |
| BS Bahamas | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 143K | — | Gualda | 1 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
Gualda 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 Italian, forma feminina de Gualdo.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, alternative form of guada (“dyer's rocket”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, coal black, charred
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)
- Cristiano Gualdab. 1973BRBrazilian actor
- Roberta Gualdab. 1981BRBrazilian actress
- Rubén Garcíab. 2004ESnot in their usual nameSpanish badminton player
- Guilherme GualdaUSProfessor, Vanderbilt University
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 10 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.3K | #3,436 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.3K | #3,436 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 589 | #14,670 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 320 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Gualda come from?
- inflection of gualdir: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Gualda?
- A machine transcription gives /gwalda/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Gualda mean?
- In Spanish, weld, dyer's rocket
- What are other forms of the name Gualda?
- In the etymology graph, Gaude is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Gualda have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Gualda in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gualda.
- Where is Gualda most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gualda is densest in Spain — about 1 in 37 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gualda?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,338 people named Gualda, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Gualda?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gualdaThe 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, “Gualda”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.