Guinea
loc · French · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Guinea is a name, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. It appears chiefly in French and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: region, republic, gulf, Africa.
- 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 ●
- Sources
- 101 ●
- 1 in 26K ◐
across 8 countries
11K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Guiñe in AR Argentina, CL Chile, Guinee in US United States, GB United Kingdom, Guine in BR Brazil 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●
region, republic, gulf, Africa
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 13 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 | 1,898 | 2.1K rec. | 1 in 26K | 1.9K | Guinea | 101 |
| NI Nicaragua | 1,801 | 137 rec. | — | — | Guinea | 6 |
| IT Italy | 725 | 17 rec. | — | — | Guinea | 8 |
| BR Brazil | 376 | 287 rec. | 1 in 563K | 376 | Guine | 45 |
| US United States | 299 | 886 rec. | 1 in 1.1M | 343 | Guinee | 75 |
| MA Morocco | 137 | 1 rec. | — | — | Guinea | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 133 | 1.6K rec. | 1 in 342K | 133 | Guiñe | 33 |
| EG Egypt | 130 | 0 rec. | — | — | Guinea | 1 |
| GQ Equatorial Guinea | 123 | 0 rec. | — | — | Guinea | 1 |
| SD Sudan | 119 | 0 rec. | — | — | Guinea | 1 |
| DZ Algeria | 114 | 0 rec. | — | — | Guinea | 1 |
| MX Mexico | 108 | 842 rec. | — | — | Guinea | 62 |
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●
- French4.3K8%
- Spanish2.8K5%
- English1.9K3%
- Dutch1K2%
- Italian7241%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 4,294 | 8% |
| Spanish | 2,767 | 5% |
| English | 1,864 | 3% |
| Dutch | 1,010 | 2% |
| Italian | 724 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Guinea is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, The coastal region of West Africa between Morocco and the Congo, particularly the north shore of the Gulf of Guinea.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, Guinea (a country in West Africa; official name: Guineai Köztársaság)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, Guinea (a country in West Africa)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Angļu naudas vienība, kas sākumā kalta no Gvinejas (Guinea) zelta
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Notable people with this name●
- Anselmo Guineab. 1854ESSpanish painter (1854-1906)
- Benito Guinea López de Aréchagab. 1855ES(1855-1917)
- Enrique Guineab. 1874ESSpanish photographer
- Isidoro Guineab. 1893ESSpanish painter (1893-1947)
- Emilio Guineab. 1907ESSpanish botanist (1907-1985)
- Juan Carlos Elorza Guineab. 1939ESpolítico español
- Francisco José Guinea Lópezb. 1953ESSpanish condensed matter physicist
- María Guineab. 1988ESSpanish actress
- Cristina Guineab. 1992ESSpanish field hockey player (1992-)
- Fernando Muñiz GuineaESSpanish paleontologist
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 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.9K | #2,529 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.9K | #2,525 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 343 | #62,967 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 291 | #67,747 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 204 | #85,297 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 124 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 13 | #50,156 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1980 | 5 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 5 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #110,730 |
| CK Cook Islands | Cook Islands Electoral Rolls (2022 General Election + 2024 Pa Enua) | 2022 | 3 | #56 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 3 | #12,325 |
Reference works 1
- 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 · 30 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Guinea?
- We estimate roughly 2.9 thousand people bear Guinea (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Guinea have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.9 thousand people bear Guinea in Spain, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled guinea.
- What does the name Guinea mean?
- Recorded meaning: region, republic, gulf, Africa
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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, “Guinea”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.