The Guevara surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 46,454 people carried this name — #746 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 6,350 people counted. That is up 51% from 30,844 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Guevara surname
A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque], mostly associated to Che Guevara.
Borrowing from Spanish Guevara, from Basque.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Guevara» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 30,454 people named Guevara live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
151 people named Guevara live in Switzerland.
They live in 10 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 125 people named Guevara.
49 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 22 départements, most often Rhône.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
47 people named Guevara is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Guevara,
with a public archive behind them.
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Antonio Guevara Noroña 1480–1545 · bishop -
Felipe de Guevara 1500–1563 · painter -
Innico Maria Guevara-Suardo 1744–1814 · friar -
Trinidad Guevara 1798–1873 · actor -
Giovanni Guevara 1822–1882 · politician
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 234 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Guevara.
- Guerrini 398 · U.S. census
- Guerry 621 · U.S. census
- Guers 116 · U.S. census
- Guertin 3,097 · U.S. census
- Guest 9,483 · U.S. census
- Guetta 101 · U.S. census
- Gueye 1,274 · U.S. census
- Gugenheim 109 · U.S. census
- Guglielmetti 353 · U.S. census
- Guglielmi 817 · U.S. census
- Guglielmini 111 · U.S. census
- Guglielmino 235 · U.S. census
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