Guillen
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Guillen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country. In Honduras it is the 80th most common surname. Recorded meaning: from the personal name Guillen, Spanish equivalent of William.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 493(measured from records)
- HNHonduras≈1 in 635
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 667
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.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- #957 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 359 (measured from records)
- 1 in 493 (inferred from the name graph)
≈43,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
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)
from the personal name Guillen, Spanish equivalent of William.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #118 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 667 | — | 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 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Guillen | 99 |
| HN Honduras | #80 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 635 | — | Guillen | 58 |
| CR Costa Rica | #111 | 10,345 | 1 in 493 | 10K | Guillen | 79 |
| SV El Salvador | #112 | ≈9,200 est. | ≈1 in 701 | — | 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: 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)
- Sammy Guillenb. 1924NZNew Zealand cricketer (1924-2013)
- Rosalinda Guillénb. 1951USfarmworker, American labor unionist, and Democratic Party politician; helped to organize the United Farm Workers of America (born 1951)
- Jorge Villazánb. 1962UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan association football player
- Manel Guillenb. 1967ESSpanish businessman and lawyer
- Ryan Guillenb. 1977USAmerican politician
- José Rujanob. 1982VEnot in their usual nameRoad bicycle racer
- Bryan Rodriguezb. 1991DOnot in their usual nameDominican baseball player (1991-)
- Gustavo Guillenb. 1991MXMexican footballer
- Aaron Guillenb. 1993MXMexican footballer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 38 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 34K | #146 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 34K | #146 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 30K | #1,166 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 30K | #1,159 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 21K | #1,550 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 10K | #156 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 3.8K | — |
| 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 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)
- 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 Guillen mean, and where does it come from?
- from the personal name Guillen, Spanish equivalent of William. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Guillen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 43 thousand people named Guillen in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled guillen.
- 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 Venezuela 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 Venezuela, Guillen is the 118th most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/guillenThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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” — the 118th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.