Given name & surname
Guerrero
Guerrero is a surname from Spanish. It is used in English, Spanish, and Tagalog.
Meaning & origin
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
- —
- Too few births to compare
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.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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