Guerrá
surname · Latin script
Guerrá is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Guatemala it is the 15th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Old Spanish guerra, from Early Medieval Latin werra, borrowed from Frankish *werru (“confusion; quarrel”).
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 429(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 582
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 607
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #626 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 420 (measured from records)
- 1 in 353 (inferred from the name graph)
99,757 people
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Guerra in PE Peru, US United States, VE Venezuela and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Old Spanishguerra(measured from records)
- Early Medieval Latinwerra(measured from records)
- Frankish*werru“confusion; quarrel”(measured from records)
Inherited from Old Spanish guerra, from Early Medieval Latin werra, borrowed from Frankish *werru (“confusion; quarrel”).
Sources 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Nomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Guerrá 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #221 | 99,757 | 1 in 2.1K | 100K | Guerra | 190 |
| US United States | — | 70,071 | 1 in 4.7K | 70K | Guerra | 420 |
| VE Venezuela | #77 | ≈67,000 est. | ≈1 in 429 | — | Guerra | 97 |
| PE Peru | #85 | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 669 | — | Guerra | 120 |
| CO Colombia | #167 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 35 | Guerra | 159 |
| GT Guatemala | #15 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 607 | — | Guerra | 86 |
| SV El Salvador | #91 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 582 | — | Guerra | 54 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 9,599 | 1 in 353 | 9.6K | — | 70 |
99,757 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Guerrá mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Old Spanish guerra, from Early Medieval Latin werra, borrowed from Frankish *werru (“confusion; quarrel”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Guerrá have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 100 thousand people named Guerrá, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled guerra.
- Where is Guerrá most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Guerrá is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 353 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Guerrá?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 99,757 people named Guerrá, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Guerrá compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Guerrá is the 221st most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/guerr%C3%A1The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Guerrá” — the 221st most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.