Given name & surname

Guerrero

Guerrero is a surname from Spanish. It is used in English, Spanish, and Tagalog.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Guerrero comes from Spanish.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Spanish Guerrero (“warrior”).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1989. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Guerrero through the years

Babies since 1880
12
12 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
1989
6 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
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Guerrero in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1989–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2002. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 329 as a first name in 2020; 125,229 as a surname in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Guerrero’s family of names

In English usage, Guerrero as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with WARRIOR.

Walk Guerrero’s family in the name graph

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The ring: across languages.

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