Guman

given name · Latin script

Meaning: unexplained

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ɡmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Guman is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • QAQatar≈1 in 181K(inferred from the name graph)
  • KWKuwait≈1 in 296K
  • AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 314K

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.

Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)

≈110 people, est.

Sources
60 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 181K (inferred from the name graph)

Qatar, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

unexplained.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Guman 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.

Where Guman is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan≈110 est.≈1 in 2.1M—Guman7
ID Indonesia≈100 est.≈1 in 2.6M—Guman20
AZ Azerbaijan≈33 est.≈1 in 314Klisted—1
SA Saudi Arabia≈24 est.≈1 in 1.4M—Guman3
US United States≈23 est.≈1 in 14M401Guman40
QA Qatar≈14 est.≈1 in 181K—Guman3
KW Kuwait≈10 est.≈1 in 296K—Guman3
PL Poland21 in 19M25——

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 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Guman is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Güman

  • English given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Gueman, Gum-An, Güman, Gumán

  • Slovak surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia

    Also written Gumán, Gumáň, Gumaň

  • Turkish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, India, Cyprus

    Also written Güman, Gűman

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Guman 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.

  • In kky, leg, thigh

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Kurdish, doubt

    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)

  • Mike Gumanb. 1958USAmerican football player (born 1958)

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)

Informalनमस्ते Guman जी,Hi Guman, (English)

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 23 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Guman
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020401#55,282
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000331#57,544
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010296#66,754
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202625—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—25#78,167
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202623—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—23#82,042
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

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 Guman mean, and where does it come from?
unexplained. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Guman?
A machine transcription gives /ɡmən/ (IPA) for Hindi.
Is Guman a male or female name?
Guman 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.
In which country does Guman have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 111 people named Guman in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled guman.
How common is the name Guman?
In Poland, the national register counted 2 people named Guman in 2026, about 1 in 19 million residents.

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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, “Guman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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