Guillot
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of the personal name Guille, itself a short form of Guillaume
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɟijo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Guillot is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 3.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 75K
- LALaos≈1 in 4.7K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 322 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a pet form of the personal name Guille, itself a short form of Guillaume.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Guillot 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Guillot | 2 |
| FR France | #116 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | 2.8K | Guillot | 322 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Guillot | 1 |
| US United States | — | 4,457 | 1 in 75K | 4.5K | Guillot | 247 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Guillot | 2 |
| LA Laos | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Guillot | 5 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 87 | 1 in 39K | 87 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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)
Guillot is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, a surname transferred from the nickname, equivalent to English Gillet, Gillett, Gillette, Willet, Willett, or Willette
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Un guillot se plaît à étaler ses richesses. Le mot nous vient d’une fable de La Fontaine, « Le loup devenu berger », surtout pour les deux vers suivants : « Il aurait volontiers écrit sur son chapeau : C’est moi qui suis Guillot, berger de ce troupeau. » Le guillot peut aussi être un ver du fromage. Il a, dans ce cas, la même origine.
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
In French, dérivé de Guillaume.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
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)
- Jean-Baptiste André Guillotb. 1827FRRose breeder, son of Jean-Baptiste Guillot
- Siz Laure Albin-Guillotb. 1879FRFrench photographer (1879-1962)
- René Guillotb. 1900FRFrench children's writer (1900–1969)
- André Guillotb. 1908FRFrench chef (1908-1993)
- Olga Guillotb. 1922CUCuban singer (1922–2010)
- Jacques Lafayeb. 1930FRnot in their usual nameFrench historian (1930-2024)
- Gilles Guillotb. 1935FRFrench actor (1935-2013)
- Vicente Guillotb. 1941ESfootballer
- Jaume Duch Guillotb. 1962ESSpanish spokesperson
- Gregory M. GuillotAmerican Air Force general
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 24 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.5K | #7,473 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.4K | #7,055 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.2K | #7,663 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 3.8K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 3.8K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 3.6K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 3.4K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 3.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 2.9K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 2.8K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 2.6K | — |
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 Guillot mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of the personal name Guille, itself a short form of Guillaume. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Guillot?
- A machine transcription gives /ɟijo/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Guillot have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Guillot in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled guillot.
- How common is the name Guillot?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,457 people named Guillot in 2010, about 1 in 75 thousand residents.
- How common is Guillot compared with other names?
- In France, Guillot is the 116th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/guillotThe 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, “Guillot” — the 116th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.