Guevara
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Castilianized form of Basque Gebara, a habitational name from a place in the Basque province of Araba
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɟeβaɾa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Guevara is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country, where it is the 50th most common surname.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 172(inferred from the name graph)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 378
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 380
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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- #562 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 424 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 172 (inferred from the name graph)
≈79,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, 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)
Castilianized form of Basque Gebara, a habitational name from a place in the Basque province of Araba. The origin and meaning of the place name are uncertain; it is recorded in the form Gebala by the geographer Ptolemy in the 2nd cenmry ad. This is a rare name in Spain.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Guevara 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #50 | ≈79,000 est. | ≈1 in 404 | — | Guevara | 141 |
| VE Venezuela | #66 | ≈75,000 est. | ≈1 in 380 | 550 | Guevara | 112 |
| CO Colombia | #138 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 943 | 30 | Guevara | 157 |
| US United States | — | 46,454 | 1 in 7.2K | 49K | Guevara | 424 |
| SV El Salvador | #34 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 172 | 40K | Guevara | 88 |
| NI Nicaragua | #53 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 378 | — | Guevara | 42 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 14,304 | 1 in 356 | 14K | — | 91 |
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: asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Guevara 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, A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque], mostly associated to Che Guevara
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Solomon R., museum. New York City
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Che, Cuban revolutionary
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Guggenheim
as a namePronouncing 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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Wálter Guevarab. 1912BO54th President of Bolivia (August-November 1979)
- Che Guevarab. 1928ARArgentine Marxist revolutionary (1928–1967)
- Nacha Guevarab. 1940ARArgentine actress and singer
- Aleida Guevarab. 1960CUCuban doctor; politician and daughter of Che Guevara
- Zabryna Guevarab. 1972USAmerican actress
- Amado Guevarab. 1976HNHonduran footballer
- Ana Guevarab. 1977MXMexican athlete and politician
- Walter Garganob. 1984UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan footballer (born 1984)
- Jimena Barónb. 1987ARnot in their usual nameArgentine singer songwriter and actress
- Ander Guevarab. 1997ESSpanish 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 44 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 49K | #687 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 46K | #746 |
| SV El Salvador | El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived) | — | 40K | #31 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 31K | #1,039 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 14K | #136 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 30 | #86 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Guevara mean, and where does it come from?
- Castilianized form of Basque Gebara, a habitational name from a place in the Basque province of Araba. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Guevara?
- A machine transcription gives /ɟeβaɾa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Guevara have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 79 thousand people named Guevara in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled guevara.
- How common is the name Guevara?
- In the United States, the national register counted 46,454 people named Guevara in 2010, about 1 in 7.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Guevara compared with other names?
- In Peru, Guevara is the 50th most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/guevaraThe 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, “Guevara” — the 50th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.