Guine

surname · French · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Guine is a surname, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: inflection of guinar:.

rarermore common
  • NINicaragua1 in 1.3K◐
  • FRFrance1 in 707K
  • GQEquatorial Guinea1 in 224

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈2.9K ●

across 8 countries

Sources
101 ●

11K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 26K ◐

Spain

Spellings & scripts●

GuineaLatin · French●4.3K records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Guinea in FR France, ES Spain, NI Nicaragua and 18 more, Guiñe in AR Argentina, CL Chile, Guinee in US United States, GB United Kingdom and Guiné in PT Portugal.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

inflection of guinar:

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Guine is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain1,8982.1K rec.1 in 26K1.9KGuinea101
NI Nicaragua1,801137 rec.——Guinea6
IT Italy72517 rec.——Guinea8
BR Brazil376287 rec.1 in 563K376Guine45
US United States299886 rec.1 in 1.1M343Guinee75
MA Morocco1371 rec.——Guinea1
AR Argentina1331.6K rec.1 in 342K133Guiñe33
EG Egypt1300 rec.——Guinea1
GQ Equatorial Guinea1230 rec.——Guinea1
SD Sudan1190 rec.——Guinea1
DZ Algeria1140 rec.——Guinea1
MX Mexico108842 rec.——Guinea62

Roughly 1.9K people in Spain bear this name (about 1 in 26K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • French3.4K64%
  • English80815%
  • Portuguese62112%
  • Spanish2374%
  • Hindi932%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French3,39064%
English80815%
Portuguese62112%
Spanish2374%
Hindi932%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Guine is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate surname75 records spelled Guine2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States

    Also written Guiné

25 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Guine is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Irish, Guinea (a country in West Africa)

    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.

Over time●

05010015019001920194019601980139 · 1961

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Guine in INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000), France, 1891–1991
Yearrecords
189151
190177
191165
192189
193188
194198
1951131
1961139
1971130
1981115
199196

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.

Evidence●

Attested in 9 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Guine
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—376#21,889
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961139—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951131—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971130—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981115—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194198—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199196—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192189—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193188—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)190177—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)191165—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)189151—

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 26 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Guine?
We estimate roughly 2.9 thousand people bear Guine (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Guine have the most bearers?
We estimate about 1.9 thousand people bear Guine in Spain, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled guinea.
What does the name Guine mean?
Recorded meaning: inflection of guinar:
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Guine”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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