Guen
surname · French · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Guen is a surname, most frequently recorded in Spain. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script.
- FRFrance1 in 1.7M◐
- SGSingapore1 in 158K
- DZAlgeria1 in 500K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈78 ●
- Sources
- 253 ●
- 1 in 1.7M ◐
across 3 countries
24K records
Official registry-verified
France
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 130 | 138 rec. | — | — | Guen | 10 |
| US United States | — | 93 | 96 rec. | — | listed | Guen | 35 |
| SG Singapore | — | 61 | 63 rec. | — | — | Guen | 2 |
| FR France | #520 | 39 | 23K rec. | 1 in 1.7M | 39 | Guen | 253 |
| BR Brazil | — | 37 | — | 1 in 5.7M | 37 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 30 | 29 rec. | — | — | Guen | 8 |
| CA Canada | — | 23 | 23 rec. | — | — | Guen | 17 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 21 | 13 rec. | — | — | Guen | 12 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 15 | 14 rec. | — | — | Guen | 10 |
| DZ Algeria | — | 14 | 15 rec. | — | — | Guen | 4 |
| MA Morocco | — | 13 | 8 rec. | — | — | Guen | 6 |
| PL Poland | — | 2 | — | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French39K94%
- English1.1K3%
- German3851%
- Japanese1781%
- Spanish1291%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 39,179 | 94% |
| English | 1,114 | 3% |
| German | 385 | 1% |
| Japanese | 178 | 1% |
| Spanish | 129 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1891 | 15 |
| 1901 | 22 |
| 1911 | 29 |
| 1921 | 32 |
| 1931 | 28 |
| 1941 | 26 |
| 1951 | 53 |
| 1961 | 44 |
| 1971 | 43 |
| 1981 | 45 |
| 1991 | 39 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Nison Guenb. 1889PLHolocaust victim (born 1889)
- Patrick Guenb. 1959FRFrench politician
- Serena Guenb. 1990GBBritish publisher and businesswoman
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 8 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 53 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 45 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 44 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 43 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 39 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 37 | #129,205 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 32 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 28 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 15 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 16 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Guen?
- We estimate roughly 78 people bear Guen (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Guen have the most bearers?
- Guen is most frequently recorded in Spain, where it is most often spelled guen.
- How common is Guen compared with other names?
- In France, Guen is the 520th most common surname of 1,061,840 surnames recorded there.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Guen” — the 520th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.