Gurin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic from the personal name Gury (variant of Yuri) or Georgi, derivatives of Greek Georgios (see George)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡɹɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gurin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country, where it is the 23rd most common surname.
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.6Kas Guerin(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 16Kas Guerin
- AUAustralia≈1 in 25Kas Guerin
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gurin itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 360 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 251K (inferred from the name graph)
≈42,000 named Guerin, est.
Highest-authority source
Russia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Guerin in FR France, US United States, CA Canada and 5 more.
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)
patronymic from the personal name Gury (variant of Yuri) or Georgi, derivatives of Greek Georgios (see George).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gurin 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #23 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 5.5K | Guerin | 338 |
| US United States | — | 6,291as Guerin | 1 in 53K | 6.3K | Guerin | 360 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Guerin | 149 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Guerin | 103 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 1 | Guerin | 116 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 251K | — | Guerin | 17 |
| IE Ireland | #940 | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Guerin | 60 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Guerin | 52 |
| PL Poland | — | 88 | 1 in 435K | 56 | — | 1 |
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; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Gurin is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
habitational name for someone from the village of Gury in Belarus.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Basque, butter
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bdy, elbow
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, butter; fat, grease; robust; soft, tender
as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
In Basque, ( SP , H ), guren ( V-m, G-azp-goi, AN-5vill ap. A ; Lar , H (V, G) ), guruin ( V-gip ap. A ). " Gurina, gurintxoa, glandes qui vint sous l'aisselle" SP . "Landre" Lar . "Glándulas, bubones" A . v. gurintxo. Surra biribilla, ta eskumako negar-guriñak gorantz begira . Onaind STeresa 12.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- François Gros-Gurinb. 1819FRFrench politician (1819-1884)
- Samuel Gurinb. 1888American biochemist of Jewish origin (1888-1956)
- Eugenia Gurin-Loovb. 1922EEEstonian cultural activist, of Jewish origin (1922-2001)
- Gerald Gurinb. 1922US1922-
- Philip Gurinb. 1953USAmerican screenwriter
- Joel Gurinb. 1953UStechnologist; president and founder of the Center for Open Data Enterprise
- Vladimir Gurinb. 1955RURussian judoka
- Corneliu Gurinb. 1975MDMoldovan jurist
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 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 381 | #51,352 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 380 | #54,296 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 351 | #61,734 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 56 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 56 | #45,873 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 32 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 32 | #67,129 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Gurin mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from the personal name Gury (variant of Yuri) or Georgi, derivatives of Greek Georgios (see George). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gurin?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɹɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gurin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 42 thousand people named Guerin in France, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Gurin?
- In Poland, the national register counted 88 people named Gurin in 2026, about 1 in 435 thousand residents.
- How common is Gurin compared with other names?
- In France, Gurin is the 23rd most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gurin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gurinThe 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, “Gurin” — the 23rd most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.