Guerrero

Locally spelled Guerrero- in US United States and Güërrërö in EC Ecuador.

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.

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Guerrero is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English surname15 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom

  Languages: English, Dutch

  Also written Guerrero', Ğüëŕŕëŕö, Gůërrero, Gūêrrërõ, Güerrerô

• French surname9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France

  Also written Gùèrrêrô, G̸u̸e̸r̸r̸e̸r̸o̸, Gúérréró, Guérréro, Gùerrero

• a separate name2 spellings in the group
• a separate name3 spellings in the group

  Also written Guérrero

• a separate name7 spellings in the group

  Also written Guerreró

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Güërrërõ

69 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Guerrero is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• nickname for an aggressive person or for a soldier, from an agent derivative of guerra ‘war’. Compare Guerra.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In English, probably a variant of Guest with loss of final -t.

  as a name·The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

• In Spanish, bellicose, warlike

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Italian, de Guerra com sufixo singular -erro

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• In English, state, Mexico

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

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.

• Vicente Guerrerob. 1782MXleading revolutionary generals of the tortilla War of Independence and President of Mexico (1782-1831)
• Eddie Guerrerob. 1967USAmerican wrestler (1967–2005)
• Paolo Guerrerob. 1984PEPeruvian association football player

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).

45 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 25 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Guerrero mean, and where does it come from?

Spanish, Portuguese, or Italian nickname for a soldier or truculent person, from guerrero ‘warrior’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].

How do you pronounce Guerrero?

In Spanish /ɡereɾo/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

Which countries have the most people with the surname Guerrero?

Mondonomo estimates about 401 thousand people named Guerrero in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled guerrero. After it come Colombia, United States, Spain and Ecuador; the country table on this page ranks them.

Where is Guerrero most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Guerrero is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 222 people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Guerrero?

In the United States, the national register counted 128,677 people named Guerrero in 2010, about 1 in 2.6 thousand residents.