Guernsey
surname · Latin script
Meaning: apparently a habitational name from the island of Guernsey in the Channel Islands
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡɝnzi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Guernsey is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 146K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 172K
- LRLiberia≈1 in 39K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 272 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
2,277 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Liberia, 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)
apparently a habitational name from the island of Guernsey in the Channel Islands. It is now a rare surname in Britain.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Guernsey 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 | — | 2,277 | 1 in 146K | 2.3K | Guernsey | 272 |
| IN India | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | — | Guernsey | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 172K | — | Guernsey | 34 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 135K | — | Guernsey | 47 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 245K | — | Guernsey | 3 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Guernsey | 2 |
| LR Liberia | #740 | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Guernsey | 1 |
| PS Palestine | — | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Guernsey | 2 |
2,277 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)
Guernsey is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, island, English channel
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Portuguese, Guernsey (an island and dependency of the United Kingdom in the English Channel)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, Guernsey (an island in the Channel Islands)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, Guernsey (island)
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)
- Wellington Guernseyb. 1817IEIrish composer, poet, and author (1817-1885)
- Alfred Hudson Guernseyb. 1836United States editor (1824-1902)
- George H. Guernseyb. 1839USAmerican architect (1839–1900)
- Alice M. Guernseyb. 1850USAmerican writer
- Frank E. Guernseyb. 1866USAmerican politician (1866–1927)
- Janet Guernseyb. 1913USAmerican physicist (1913–2001)
- Frank Guernseyb. 1917USAmerican tennis player (1917–2008)
- Otis Love Guernsey, Jr.b. 1918USAmerican writer (1918-2001)
- Lisa Guernseyb. 1971USAmerican early education researcher, author, and journalist
- Casey Guernseyb. 1980USAmerican politician
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 7 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.3K | #13,376 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.3K | #12,566 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.2K | #13,078 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Guernsey come from?
- apparently a habitational name from the island of Guernsey in the Channel Islands. It is now a rare surname in Britain. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Guernsey?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɝnzi/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Guernsey mean?
- Recorded meaning: apparently a habitational name from the island of Guernsey in the Channel Islands.
- In which country does Guernsey have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Guernsey, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled guernsey.
- How common is the name Guernsey?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,277 people named Guernsey in 2010, about 1 in 146 thousand residents.
- How common is Guernsey compared with other names?
- In Liberia, Guernsey is the 740th most common surname of 10,200 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Guernsey?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/guernseyThe 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, “Guernsey” — the 740th most common surname in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.