Guizar
surname · Latin script
Meaning: reduced form of the family name of Basque origin Jaureguizar, a topographic name from Basque jauregui ‘palace’, ‘principal home’ + zar ‘old’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/giθaɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Guizar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 113K(measured from records)
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 103K
- CLChile≈1 in 119K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 215 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 103K (inferred from the name graph)
2,951 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guatemala, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)reduced form of the family name of Basque origin Jaureguizar, a topographic name from Basque jauregui ‘palace’, ‘principal home’ + zar ‘old’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Guizar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 2,951 | 1 in 113K | 3K | Guizar | 215 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 557K | — | Guizar | 5 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 133K | — | Guizar | 11 |
| JP Japan | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 608K | — | Guizar | 1 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 103K | — | Guizar | 8 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 119K | — | Guizar | 3 |
| SV El Salvador | — | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 300K | — | Guizar | 4 |
| MX Mexico | #980 | — | — | 138 | Guizar | 151 |
2,951 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Rafael Guízar y Valenciab. 1878MXCatholic bishop and saint (1878–1938)
- Luis Guízar Barragánb. 1895MXMexican bishop (1895-1981)
- Tito Guízarb. 1908MXMexican singer and actor (1908-1999)
- Pepe Guízarb. 1912MXMexican musician
- Susana Guízarb. 1922MXMexican film actress (1922–1997)
- Ricardo Guízar Díazb. 1933MXMexican Catholic archbishop (1933–2015)
- Enríque Guízar Nolazcob. 1954botanist
- Gonzálo Guízarb. 1961MXMexican politician
- Javier Guízar Macíasb. 1964MXMexican politician
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3K | #10,803 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.8K | #10,827 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.1K | #13,085 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 138 | #1,495 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname 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 does the name Guizar mean, and where does it come from?
- reduced form of the family name of Basque origin Jaureguizar, a topographic name from Basque jauregui ‘palace’, ‘principal home’ + zar ‘old’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Guizar?
- A machine transcription gives /giθaɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Guizar have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.0 thousand people named Guizar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled guizar.
- How common is the name Guizar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,951 people named Guizar in 2010, about 1 in 113 thousand residents.
- How common is Guizar compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Guizar is the 980th most common surname of 206,803 surnames 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/guizarThe 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, “Guizar” — the 980th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.