Guro
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Norwegian Nynorsk: a female given name, variant of Gudrun
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡuɹəʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Guro is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 27K(inferred from the name graph)
- ALAlbania≈1 in 61K
- NONorway≈1 in 338K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 94 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
a female given name, variant of Gudrun
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Guro is read(measured from records)
Guro is one spelling over 5 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.
- Norwegian Nynorsk62%
a female given name, variant of Gudrun
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English43%
A language of the Mande family spoken in the Ivory Coast.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Guro in Spanish.
- Hindi10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Guro in Hindi.
- Swahili7.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Guro in Swahili.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Guro 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Guro | 5 |
| IN India | 692 | 1 in 1.9M | 692 | — | 2 |
| US United States | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | 107 | Guro | 20 |
| AL Albania | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 61K | 12 | — | — |
| NO Norway | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 338K | 15K | Guro | 94 |
| GE Georgia | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Guro | 12 |
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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)
Guro is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Kurdish, Wolf person
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
Norwegian: informal pet form of GUDRUN .
as a word
In Filipino, teacher; educator; instructor
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of ぐろ
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)
- Guro Sandsdalenb. 1916NONorwegian writer (1916-2000)
- Guro Valenb. 1960NONorwegian physician
- Guro Fjellangerb. 1964NONorwegian politician (1964–2019)
- Guro Nagelhus Schiab. 1978NONorwegian dancer and actress
- Guro Strøm Sollib. 1983NONorwegian cross-country skier
- Guro Knutsen Miennab. 1985NONorwegian association football player
- Guro Pettersenb. 1991NONorwegian association football player
- Guro Reitenb. 1994NONorwegian association football player
- Guro Bergsvandb. 1994NONorwegian association football player
- Guro Nestakerb. 1998NONorwegian handball player
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 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 692 | #7,240 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 107 | #142,819 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 15 | #4,084 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 does the name Guro mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, variant of Gudrun Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Guro?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡuɹəʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Guro have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.0 thousand people named Guro in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled guro.
- How common is the name Guro?
- In India, the national register counted 692 people named Guro, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Guro?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/guroThe 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, “Guro”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.