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

Guardado, 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 Guardado surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Guardado in America

Guardado is the 2848th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Guardado surname appeared 12,656 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 4 people would have the surname Guardado.

We can also compare 2010 data for Guardado 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 Guardado

The surname Guardado is of Spanish origin, derived from the verb "guardar," which means "to guard" or "to keep." It likely originated in the regions of Spain where the Castilian language was spoken, such as Andalusia, Castile, and Leon, during the medieval period.

The name Guardado may have been initially given as a descriptive surname to individuals who worked as guards or watchmen, or to those who lived near a guarded area or fortification. It could also have been bestowed upon someone known for their protective or cautious nature.

One of the earliest recorded instances of the surname Guardado can be found in a 14th-century document from the city of Seville, where a certain Pedro Guardado was mentioned as a landowner. Another early reference comes from a 15th-century genealogical record in Murcia, which listed a family with the surname Guardado.

During the 16th and 17th centuries, as Spain expanded its empire across the Americas, many individuals with the surname Guardado migrated to the New World. Notable bearers of the name from this period include Diego Guardado, a Spanish conquistador who participated in the conquest of Mexico in the 1520s, and Alonso Guardado, a Jesuit missionary who traveled to New Spain (present-day Mexico) in the 1570s.

In the 18th century, a prominent figure was Juan Guardado, a Spanish military officer who served in the War of the Spanish Succession and later became the governor of Panama in 1732. Another notable individual was María Guardado, a renowned poet and writer from Guatemala, who lived in the late 18th century.

The 19th century saw several Guardados make their mark in various fields. José Guardado was a Chilean politician and diplomat who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the 1860s. Miguel Guardado was a Mexican architect known for his work on numerous churches and government buildings in the 1870s and 1880s.

As the name Guardado spread across the Spanish-speaking world, it underwent variations in spelling and pronunciation. In some regions, it was written as Guardadu or Guordado, while in others, it was pronounced with a more guttural "r" sound.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Guardado

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

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 Guardado 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 Guardado 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 Guardado was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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