Given name & surname

Guzman

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

Original SpanishGuzmán

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Guzman comes from Spanish.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Spanish Guzmán.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2023. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Guzman through the years

Babies since 1880
11
11 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
2025
6 babies
2025
6
#11,142 for boys
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
012342025Highest share 20253.5
Guzman in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2023–2025, 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

In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,142 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 338 as a first name in 2020; 170,696 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.

Guzman’s family of names

In English usage, Guzman as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Guzmán. In English usage, Guzman as a surname was borrowed from the Spanish form Guzmán. In English usage, Guzman as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form गुसमान.

Walk Guzman’s family in the name graph

GuzmanGuzmánगुसमान

The ring: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Across languages 2

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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Sibling ideas

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