How rare is the name Guillermo?

61,844 people in the United States have the first name Guillermo, about 1 in 4,884. It ranks #794 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

GUILLERMO

#794

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
61,844
About
1 in 4,884
This common or more
66.6%
Who bears it

Of the 61,844 people named Guillermo, 96.8% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino, 1.4% as White and 1.3% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Virtually all are male (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Guillermo peaked in 1998, when 693 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18852025
Peak year
1998
Births that year
693
In 2025*
264 ▼62%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 32,148 babies have been given the name since 1885. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Guillermo by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #774. The largest share of babies named Guillermo, 29.1%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1880s#3,1215
1890s#3,21413
1900s#2,82344
1910s#2,304253
1920s#1,475821
1930s#1,415783
1940s#1,445943
1950s#1,3681,495
1960s#1,2062,112
1970s#9713,362
1980s#8874,388
1990s#7746,496
2000s#9206,100
2010s#1,4523,615
2020s#1,7451,718
Before 19010.1%
Greatest Generation 1901–272.9%
Silent Generation 1928–454.4%
Baby boom 1946–649%
Generation X 1965–8015.4%
Millennials 1981–9626.4%
Generation Z 1997–1229.1%
2013 and later12.7%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Guillermo is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Guillermo has been most common in Arizona (4.2×), Texas (4×), and California (3.8×), and least common in Pennsylvania (0.04×).

28,991 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Spelled almost the same

4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Guillermo, most common first.

Also a last name

As a last name, Guillermo ranks #8,791 of 156,621, with 3,579 people. See Guillermo as a last name

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