Guaman
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɣaman/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Guaman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country, where it is the 9th most common surname.
- ECEcuador1 in 167(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 16K
- ARArgentina1 in 61K
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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 179 (measured from records)
- 1 in 167 (inferred from the name graph)
101,469 people, 2024
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Guaman 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | #9 | 101,469 | 1 in 167 | 101K | Guaman | 74 |
| US United States | — | 3,439 | 1 in 97K | 4.1K | Guaman | 179 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,153 | 1 in 16K | 3.2K | Guaman | 79 |
| BO Bolivia | #403 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Guaman | 25 |
| AR Argentina | — | 747 | 1 in 61K | 747 | Guaman | 33 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Guaman | 38 |
101,469 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: INEC — civil registry names; 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); 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)
- Felipe Huaman Puma de Ayalab. 1534PEnot in their usual nameIncan scholar and noble
- Adoración Guamán Hernándezb. 1977ESEcuatorian Spanish lawler, political scientist, professor and human rights activist
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 14 sources across 8 countries.
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
- How do you pronounce Guaman?
- A machine transcription gives /ɣaman/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Guaman have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 101 thousand people named Guaman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled guaman.
- Where is Guaman most common?
- Guaman is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 167 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Guaman?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 101,469 people named Guaman in 2024, about 1 in 167 residents.
- How common is Guaman compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Guaman is the 9th most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Guaman?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/guamanThe 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, “Guaman” — the 9th most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.