Guillermo
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: Germanic Wilhelm, from will/wille 'will, decision' + helm 'helmet, protection': 'protected by his will'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɟiʎeɾmo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Guillermo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 89th most common given name.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 301(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 459
- PEPeru≈1 in 470
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.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- #430 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 473 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 301 (inferred from the name graph)
≈150,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
Highest-authority source
Argentina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Germanic Wilhelm, from will/wille 'will, decision' + helm 'helmet, protection': 'protected by his will'.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Guillermo is read(measured from records)
Guillermo is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish83%
Germanic Wilhelm, from will/wille 'will, decision' + helm 'helmet, protection': 'protected by his will'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
from the personal name Guillermo, Spanish equivalent of William.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
a surname originating as a patronymic, denomination from Guillaume
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English6.3%
in Argentina. Paraguay, Uruguay
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Guillermo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #89 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 301 | 1.1K | Guillermo | 189 |
| ES Spain | #102 | 73,808 | 1 in 678 | 74K | Guillermo | 249 |
| CO Colombia | #101 | ≈71,000 est. | ≈1 in 691 | 50 | Guillermo | 185 |
| PE Peru | #58 | ≈68,000 est. | ≈1 in 470 | — | Guillermo | 137 |
| US United States | #807 | 61,844 | 1 in 5.4K | 62K | Guillermo | 473 |
| CL Chile | #52 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 459 | 120 | Guillermo | 161 |
| PY Paraguay | #981 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 517 | — | Guillermo | 60 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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)
Guillermo is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
From German Wilhelm or English }) William (see main dictionary).
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
protector
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
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)
- Wilhelm von Hohenzollernb. 1864DEnot in their usual nameGerman prince (1864-1927)
- Salvador Allendeb. 1908CLnot in their usual name28th president of Chile (1908–1973
- José López Portillob. 1920MXnot in their usual name58th President of Mexico
- Guillermo Vilasb. 1952ARArgentine tennis player
- Guillermo Lassob. 1955EC55th President of Ecuador from 2021 to 2023
- Guillermo Navarrob. 1955MXMexican cinematographer (1955-)
- Luis Guillermo Solísb. 1958CRCosta Rican 47th president
- Guillermo del Torob. 1964MXMexican filmmaker and author (born 1964)
- Guillermo Ochoab. 1985MXMexican association football player (born 1985)
- Juan Guillermo Cuadradob. 1988COColombian 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 78 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 74K | #129 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 73K | #59 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 62K | #794 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 264 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 227 | #477 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 131 | #794 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 120 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 69 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 69 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 50 | #74 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 5 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- What are other forms of the name Guillermo?
- In the etymology graph, William, Willie and Bill are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Guillermo mean, and where does it come from?
- Germanic Wilhelm, from will/wille 'will, decision' + helm 'helmet, protection': 'protected by his will'. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- How do you pronounce Guillermo?
- A machine transcription gives /ɟiʎeɾmo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Guillermo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 151 thousand people named Guillermo in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled guillermo.
- Is Guillermo a male or female name?
- Guillermo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Guillermo?
- In Spain, the national register counted 73,808 people named Guillermo, about 1 in 678 residents.
- How common is Guillermo compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Guillermo is the 89th most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/guillermoThe 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, “Guillermo” — the 89th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.