Names of Guam GU
Names in Guam are recorded in English and ch, with a given name followed by an inherited family name.
Written in English, ch.
- Population
- 168K
- Name forms recorded
- 4
No official register found for this country — the ranking below is our record corpus alone.
The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.
How names work in Guam
2 naming traditions are in use in Guam, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.
The most common names in Guam
| # | Name | Estimated bearers | How common |
|---|
No official register
Scripts & spelling
Registers & sources
Cited works
Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.
- Chamorro peopleencyclopaedia
- Chamorro surnamesgenealogy
- CHamoru/Chamorro Nicknamesweb
- CHamoru/Chamorro Surnamesweb
- Familiaweb
About this data
Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.
Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.
Questions
- Is there an official list of the most common names in Guam?
- We have not found one at an authority tier we would publish. The ranking on this page comes from our own record corpus and is labelled as such. If a register exists, we would like to hear about it.
- Is there one naming system in Guam?
- No — 2 are described on this page (Chamorro, British), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.
Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Guam”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/GU (data snapshot 2026-09-12).