Guadalupe

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Guadalupe is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Mexico it is the 6th most common given name. In Spanish, recorded as from the Extremaduran river and the shrine of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe; Marian name, patron of Hispanidad.

rarermore common
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 504(inferred from the name graph)
  • NINicaragua≈1 in 571
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 1.3K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

128,245 people, 2020

#233 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

Sources
446 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 504 (inferred from the name graph)

El Salvador, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from the Extremaduran river and the shrine of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe; Marian name, patron of Hispanidad

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

How Guadalupe is read(measured from records)

Guadalupe is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish88%

    from the Extremaduran river and the shrine of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe; Marian name, patron of Hispanidad

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

    province of Caceres, so called from Arabic wad-el-ubh ‘river of the wolf or ‘river with a curve’. The place is the site of a Hieronymite convent founded in the 14th cent., which possesses a famous image of the Virgin

    as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

    a female given name transferred from the place name

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English7.5%

    Generally Spanish name; often glossed as 'the river of the wolf'

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

    Any of several places in Iberia and the Americas, chiefly an island off Baja California.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Mountains National Park, TX;

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Guadalupe counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Guadalupe is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#589128,2451 in 2.6K100KGuadalupe446
AR Argentina#185≈35,000 est.≈1 in 1.3K1.8KGuadalupe127
ES Spain#28819,5891 in 2.6K20KGuadalupe147
PE Peru#226≈16,000 est.≈1 in 2K—Guadalupe76
PH Philippines—≈14,000 est.≈1 in 7.9K—Guadalupe43
SV El Salvador#14≈13,000 est.≈1 in 504—Guadalupe57
EC Ecuador—11,2161 in 1.5K11KGuadalupe55
NI Nicaragua#22≈11,000 est.≈1 in 571—Guadalupe29
UY Uruguay—3,2971 in 1K3.3K—42
MX Mexico#6——5.3KGuadalupe249

128,245 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Guadalupe is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia

    Languages: English, Dutch, Danish

    Also written Güādälūpë, Güadalupë, Guâdâlupé, Guadalupé

  • French name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Canada

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Guadeloupe, Guadeloupé

  • Lao given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Thailand, Chile

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Güadalüpe, กัวดาลูเป้, Güadälüpë, Gúádálúpé, Güadalüpë

75 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1700180019002000Guadalupe Victoria, b. 1786Lupe Velez, b. 1908Lupe Ontiveros, b. 1942Susana Dosamantes, b. 1948Ana Gabriel, b. 1955Victoria Ruffo, b. 1962Guadalupe Nettel, b. 1973Itatí Cantoral, b. 1975Juan Ciscomani, b. 1982Kimberly Loaiza, b. 1997

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(measured from records)

Attested in 70 sources across 32 countries.

Official registers attesting Guadalupe
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020100K#441
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202028K#441
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—20K#186
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—20K#348
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202411K#189
MX MexicoRENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)—5.3K#4
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—3.3K—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—3.2K—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)20241.8K#82
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)20151.4K—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)20151.4K—
MX MexicoRENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)—532#141

Reference works 4

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

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Guadalupe a male or female name?
Guadalupe is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Guadalupe mean, and where does it come from?
from the Extremaduran river and the shrine of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe; Marian name, patron of Hispanidad Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
In which country does Guadalupe have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 128 thousand people named Guadalupe, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled guadalupe.
What are other forms of the name Guadalupe?
In the etymology graph, Lupe and Lupita are recorded short or pet forms.
How common is the name Guadalupe?
In the United States, the national register counted 128,245 people named Guadalupe in 2020, about 1 in 2.6 thousand residents.
How common is Guadalupe compared with other names?
In the United States, Guadalupe is the 589th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Guadalupe” — the 589th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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