Guarneri
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic or plural form of Guamero, a Germanic personal name composed of the elements war(in) ‘guard’ + hari, heri ‘army’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡɑɹˈnɛɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Guarneri is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 170K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 58K
- BEBelgium1 in 59K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 56 (measured from records)
- 1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)
718 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
patronymic or plural form of Guamero, a Germanic personal name composed of the elements war(in) ‘guard’ + hari, heri ‘army’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Guarneri is read(measured from records)
Guarneri 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.
- English47%
family of Italian violin makers
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Spanish15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Guarneri in Spanish.
- Italian13%
do nome germ. Warinhari; sobrenome fixado como patronímico.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- French13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Guarneri 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Guarneri 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 718 | 1 in 463K | 718 | Guarneri | 56 |
| AR Argentina | 268 | 1 in 170K | 268 | Guarneri | 33 |
| BR Brazil | 213 | 1 in 994K | 213 | Guarneri | 43 |
| BE Belgium | 197 | 1 in 59K | 210 | Guarneri | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 86 | 1 in 98K | 86 | Guarneri | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | 58 | 1 in 58K | 58 | Guarneri | 10 |
718 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Guarneri is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
patronymic or plural form of Guamero, a Germanic personal name composed of the elements war(in) ‘guard’ + hari, heri ‘army’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Croatian, slavna talijanska obitelj graditelja gudaćih instrumenata iz Cremone; razvili i usavršili zvuk svih gudačih instrumenata od njihovih renesansnih preteča, a posebno violine
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Andrea Guarnerib. 1626ITItalian luthier
- Pietro Guarnerib. 1695ITItalian luthier
- Giuseppe Guarnerib. 1698ITItalian luthier (1698-1744)
- Andrea Guarnerib. 1826ITItalian politician (1826-1914)
- Felice Guarnerib. 1882ITItalian economist and politician (1882–1955)
- Riccardo Guarnerib. 1933ITItalian painter
- Aristide Guarnerib. 1938ITItalian footballer
- Mimi Guarnerib. 1953USresearcher
- Francesca Guarnerib. 1973ITItalian physician (born 1973)
- Francesca GuarneriITItalian Near Eastern archaeologist
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 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 718 | #32,123 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 700 | #31,301 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 645 | #37,174 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 268 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 213 | #34,903 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 210 | #8,565 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 197 | #8,542 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 86 | #12,423 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 58 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- What does the name Guarneri mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic or plural form of Guamero, a Germanic personal name composed of the elements war(in) ‘guard’ + hari, heri ‘army’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Guarneri?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɑɹˈnɛɹi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Guarneri have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 718 people named Guarneri, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled guarneri.
- Where is Guarneri most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Guarneri is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 58 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Guarneri?
- In the United States, the national register counted 718 people named Guarneri in 2010, about 1 in 463 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/guarneriThe 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, “Guarneri”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.