Guzzo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. from a late medieval personal name Guzzo, a reduced pet form of various personal names, for example Arriguzzo, from Arrigo (see Henry), and Uguzzo, from Ugo (see Hugh)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ɣuθso/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Guzzo is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- ITItaly
- ARArgentina
- BRBrazil
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)1. from a late medieval personal name Guzzo, a reduced pet form of various personal names, for example Arriguzzo, from Arrigo (see Henry), and Uguzzo, from Ugo (see Hugh). 2. in the south, from the Sicilian and Calabrian dialect word guzzu ‘(aggressive) small dog’, ‘puppy’, applied as a nickname.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
- USUnited States
- ARArgentina
- BRBrazil
- ITItaly
- FRFrance
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Guzzo is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, redução popular e coloquial de nomes próprios; patronímico do fundador da família
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Gucci
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
an asteroid in Main Belt, Solar System
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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
(measured from records)- Augusto Guzzob. 1894ITItalian philosopher (1894–1986)
- Patsy Guzzob. 1914CACanadian ice hockey player (1914–1993)
- Maria Giulia Amadasib. 1940ITnot in their usual nameItalian epigraphist (1940-2024)
- Garry Guzzob. 1941CACanadian politician
- Pietro Giovanni Guzzob. 1944ITItalian classical archaeologist (born 1944)
- Marco Guzzob. 1994ITItalian footballer
- Raphael Guzzob. 1995BRPortuguese footballer
- Francesco Guzzoactor
- Chiara Guzzoactress
- Luigi Guzzoresearcher
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)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.5K | #3,931 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.9K | #15,541 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #14,737 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,558 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.1K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 266 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 161 | #7,506 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 84 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 77 | #33,224 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 77 | #32,979 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 58 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 48 | #26,890 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- Where does the name Guzzo come from?
- 1. from a late medieval personal name Guzzo, a reduced pet form of various personal names, for example Arriguzzo, from Arrigo (see Henry), and Uguzzo, from Ugo (see Hugh). 2. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Guzzo?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /ɣuθso/; in Portuguese /ɡuzu/; in Italian /ˈɡut.t͡so/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Guzzo mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. from a late medieval personal name Guzzo, a reduced pet form of various personal names, for example Arriguzzo, from Arrigo (see Henry), and Uguzzo, from Ugo (see Hugh).
- In which country does Guzzo have the most bearers?
- Guzzo is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/guzzoThe 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, “Guzzo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.