Guillen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the personal name Guillen, Spanish equivalent of William (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 22 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɡiʎen/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Guillen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. In Honduras it is the 80th most common surname. Guillen is also written Гильен in Cyrillic and กิลเลน in Thai.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 493(measured from records)
- HNHonduras≈1 in 550
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 660
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Guillen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- #957 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 359 (measured from records)
- 1 in 493 (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Guillen in other scripts: Cyrillic and Thai
(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.
How to pronounce Guillen
- Spanish:/ɡiʎen/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from the personal name Guillen, Spanish equivalent of William.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Guillen is found
(measured from records)Guillen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #178 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 1.9K | Guillen | 196 |
| VE Venezuela | #118 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 664 | — | Guillen | 75 |
| ES Spain | #121 | 33,673 | 1 in 1.5K | 34K | Guillen | 181 |
| US United States | — | 30,153 | 1 in 11K | 30K | Guillen | 359 |
| PE Peru | #148 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Guillen | 99 |
| HN Honduras | #80 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 547 | — | Guillen | 58 |
| CR Costa Rica | #111 | 10,345 | 1 in 493 | 10K | Guillen | 79 |
| SV El Salvador | #112 | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 674 | — | Guillen | 51 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 3,752 | 1 in 903 | 3.8K | — | 43 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; 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)Guillen is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In hil, a surname from Spanish, mostly found Negros Occidental and Iloilo
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)- Victor Guillenb. 1892TTumpire (1892-1968)
- José Rujanob. 1982VEnot in their usual nameRoad bicycle racer
- Bryan Rodriguezb. 1991DOnot in their usual nameDominican baseball player (1991-)
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)38 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 22 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Guillen mean, and where does it come from?
- from the personal name Guillen, Spanish equivalent of William. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Guillen?
- In Spanish /ɡiʎen/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Guillen?
- Mondonomo estimates about 103 thousand people named Guillen in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled guillen. After it come Venezuela, Spain, United States and Peru; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Guillen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Guillen is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 493 people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Guillen?
- In Spain, the national register counted 33,673 people named Guillen, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Guillen compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Guillen is the 178th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Guillen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/guillenThe 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, “Guillen” — ranked 205th in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.