Find out how popular the last name Guadian is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Guadian.

Guadian, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Guadian surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Guadian in America

Guadian is the 35096th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Guadian surname appeared 642 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Guadian.

We can also compare 2010 data for Guadian to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Guadian

The surname GUADIAN is believed to have originated in Spain during the medieval period. It is thought to derive from the Spanish word "guadia," which means "guard" or "protector." This suggests that the name may have been given to someone who worked as a guard or performed a protective role.

The earliest recorded instances of the name GUADIAN can be traced back to the 13th century in various historical documents from the regions of Catalonia and Valencia. Some of the earliest known bearers of this surname include Pedro Guadian, a soldier who fought in the Reconquista campaigns against the Moors in the late 12th century, and Juan Guadian, a prominent landowner in the town of Castellón in the early 14th century.

In the 15th century, the GUADIAN name appeared in several documents related to the Spanish Inquisition, suggesting that some members of the family may have been involved in or affected by the religious persecutions of that era. One notable figure from this time was Alonso Guadian, a successful merchant in Seville who was accused of harboring Judaizing tendencies and was forced to flee to Portugal in the late 1400s.

During the Age of Exploration, several individuals with the GUADIAN surname played roles in the Spanish colonization of the Americas. For instance, Juan Guadian was a navigator who accompanied Christopher Columbus on his second voyage to the West Indies in 1493, and Diego Guadian was a soldier who participated in the conquest of Mexico under Hernán Cortés in the 1520s.

In the 17th century, a branch of the GUADIAN family settled in the Philippines, which was then a Spanish colony. One of the earliest recorded individuals with this name in the Philippines was Tomás Guadian, a Jesuit priest who founded several missions and schools in the Manila area in the 1640s.

Another notable bearer of the GUADIAN name was Miguel Guadian, a Spanish military officer who fought in the Napoleonic Wars in the early 19th century. He rose to the rank of general and was celebrated for his bravery and strategic skills during the Peninsular War against the French forces.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Guadian

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Guadian.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Guadian was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Guadian has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Guadian was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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