Guyot
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: from a pet form of the personal name Guy
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡjo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Guyot is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 3.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 487K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 16K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 327 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a pet form of the personal name Guy.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
How Guyot is read(measured from records)
Guyot 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.
- French88%
from a pet form of the personal name Guy.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Diminutive of Guy, from Germanic Wido.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
- English7.5%
A flat-topped seamount.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Guyot 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #120 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | 2.6K | Guyot | 327 |
| CN China | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 646K | — | Guyot | 2 |
| US United States | — | 683 | 1 in 487K | 683 | Guyot | 128 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 524 | 1 in 16K | 524 | Guyot | 47 |
| BE Belgium | — | 497 | 1 in 24K | 497 | Guyot | 54 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Guyot | 50 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 140K | listed | — | 4 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jakob Regnartb. 1540FRnot in their usual nameFranco-Flemish composer
- Étienne Guyotb. 1767FRFrench general during revolution and Napoleonic wars (1767–1807)
- Claude-Étienne Guyotb. 1768FRFrench cavalry general during the Napoleonic Wars (1768–1837)
- Arnold Henry Guyotb. 1807CHSwiss-American geographer, paleontologist, meteorologist and naturalist (1807-1884)
- Yves Guyotb. 1843FRFrench politician and economist (1843-1928)
- René Guyotb. 1882BEsport shooter
- Gabriele Wohmannb. 1932DEnot in their usual nameGerman novelist, and short story writer (1932-2015)
- Raymonde Guyotb. 1935FRFrench film editor (1935–2021)
- Claire Guyotb. 1966FRFrench actress and singer
- Laurent Guyotb. 1969FRfootballer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 3.6K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 3.5K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 3.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 3K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 2.8K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 2.7K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 2.6K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 2.5K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 2.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 1.9K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 1.5K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 683 | #33,410 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- What does the name Guyot mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of the personal name Guy. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Guyot?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡjo/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Guyot have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Guyot in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled guyot.
- How common is the name Guyot?
- In the United States, the national register counted 683 people named Guyot in 2010, about 1 in 487 thousand residents.
- How common is Guyot compared with other names?
- In France, Guyot is the 120th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/guyotThe 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, “Guyot” — the 120th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.