Guzmán
Guzmán (IPA: [ɡusˈman] or IPA: [ɡuθˈman]) is a Spanish surname.
Origins
The surname is of toponymic origin, de Guzmán ("of Guzmán"), deriving from the village of Guzmán (es) in the region of Burgos. The earliest individual documented using this surname was Rodrigo Muñoz de Guzmán, who first appears in a document from 1134 and was the founder of the noble family of this name.[1][lower-alpha 1] In modern times the preposition has dropped from the original toponymic form, leaving simply Guzmán.
There has been some suggestion over the course of time, that the name derives from a Gothic male honorific meaning "good man" (gus man, guz man); compare the archaic English honorific "Goodman", and the German honorific "Guttmann", both of which also survived as surnames.
In the Philippines, Canada and America the name usually becomes Guzman, while the Portuguese form of the name is Gusmão.
People with this surname include:
Politics and government
Historical
- the Dukes of Medina Sidonia had this surname. They include:
- Alonso Pérez de Guzmán El Bueno, Castilian nobleman
- Alonso de Guzmán El Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, Castilian nobleman, descendant of Alonso Pérez de Guzmán
- Baltasar de Zúñiga y Guzmán, 1st Duke of Arión, 17th century Viceroy of New Spain
- Saint Dominic "de Guzmán", founder of the Dominican Order (the assignment of the surname to him is apocryphal but widespread)
- Eleanor de Guzmán, 14th century Castilian royal mistress
- Fernan Pérez de Guzmán, Medieval Castilian nobleman, historian and genealogist
- Francisco de Tello de Guzmán, Spanish Governor of the Philippines
- Gaspar de Bracamonte y Guzmán, Spanish diplomat and statesman
- Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish court favorite and minister
- Juan de Guzmán, post-conquest Aztec leader
- Luisa de Guzmán, a Spanish noblewoman
- Luis Enríquez de Guzmán, conde de Alba de Liste, Viceroy of New Spain
- Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán, 16th century Spanish conquistador
Modern
- Antonio Guzmán Blanco, President of Venezuela (1870–1877; 1879–1884; 1886–1888)
- Antonio Guzmán Fernández, President of the Dominican Republic (1978–1982)
- Del R. De Guzman, Filipino politician
- Felipe S. Guzmán, President of Bolivia (1925–1926)
- Fernando Guzmán Solorzano, President of Nicaragua (1867–1871)
- Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, President of Guatemala (1951–1954), overthrown in CIA orchestrated coup
- Jaime Guzmán, Chilean politician
- Juan Guzmán Tapia, Chilean judge in charge of investigations into Augusto Pinochet from January 1998 to May 2005
- Juan José Guzmán, President of El Salvador (1842–1844)
Arts
- Alejandra Guzmán, Mexican singer
- Antonio Jose Guzman, Dutch-Panamanian audiovisual artist
- Daniela Guzmán, Ecuadorian singer
- Delfina Guzmán, Chilean actress
- Enrique Guzmán, Mexican singer
- Jack Guzman, Colombian-born American actor
- Juan Guzmán Cruchaga, Chilean poet
- Luis Guzmán, American actor
- Noel Guzmán Boffil Rojas, Cuban artist
- Patricio Guzmán, Chilean documentary film maker
- Suzanna Guzmán, American opera singer
- Vanessa Guzmán, Mexican actress and model
- Viviana Guzmán, flautist
- Joseph Guzmán, American visual artist, entrepreneur
Sports
Baseball
- Ángel Guzmán, professional baseball player
- Cristian Guzmán, major league baseball shortstop for the Texas Rangers
- Domingo Guzmán, former professional baseball player
- Freddy Guzmán, professional baseball player
- Jesús Guzmán, professional baseball player
- Juan Guzmán Correa, former major league baseball pitcher, primarily with the Toronto Blue Jays
- Joel Guzmán, professional baseball player
- José Guzmán, former major league baseball pitcher, primarily with the Texas Rangers
Soccer - Football
- Antonio Guzmán Núñez, former Spanish
- Daniel Guzmán, former Mexican
- Ever Guzmán, Mexican
- Jonathan de Guzmán, Canadian-born, playing for Dutch national team
- Juan Reynoso Guzmán, retired Peruvian
- Julian de Guzman, Canadian
- Raúl González Guzmán, Venezuelan
- Tomás Guzmán, Paraguayan
Miscellaneous
- Adriana Guzmán, Mexican tennis player
- Jered Guzman, American retired competitive pair skater
- Joan Guzmán, Dominican world-champion boxer in super featherweight division
- José Guzmán (boxer), Venezuelan boxer
- Josep Maria Guzmán, Spanish basketball player
- Juan Pablo Guzmán, Argentinian tennis player
- Manuel Guzmán, Puerto Rican swimmer
- Ramon Guzman, American football player
Journalism
- Pablo Guzmán, American television reporter
- Ralph Guzman, Filipino news correspondent
Other people named Guzman
- Abimael Guzmán, founder of the Peruvian communist group Shining Path
- Alexandra Federica Guzmán Diamante, Venezuelan beauty queen
- Efraín Guzmán, Colombian guerrilla leader
- Gastón Guzmán, Mexican mycologist
- Gustavo Guzmán, Mexican businessman
- Joaquín Guzmán, nicknamed 'El Chapo', international drug trafficker
- Onel de Guzman, Filipino computer hacker
- Pedro Guzman (also Peter Guzman), a US citizen illegally deported to Mexico in 2007
- Nicolás Eyzaguirre Guzmán, Chilean economist
Given name
Individuals with Guzman as a given name include:
- Guzmán Casaseca, Spanish soccer player, known as simply Guzmán
- Guzmán Quintero Torres, Colombian journalist
Places
Geographical features with this name include:
- Guzmán (es), small village in Burgos
- Castilleja de Guzmán, a city in the province of Seville, Spain
- Castillo de Guzmán, a castle in Tarifa, Spain
- Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco, city in Mexico.
- The city is the center of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Guzmán
- Estadio Mario Mercado Vaca Guzmán, a multi-use stadium in Potosí, Bolivia
- Gobernador Horacio Guzmán International Airport, an Argentinian airport serving the city of San Salvador de Jujuy
- Guzmán Basin, between northern Mexico and the southern United States
- Puerto Guzmán, a town in the Putumayo Department, Republic of Colombia
- Santo Domingo de Guzmán (usually simply Santo Domingo), capital and largest city in the Dominican Republic
- Toral de los Guzmanes, a municipality in the province of León, Spain
Literature
- Guzmán de Alfarache picaresque Spanish novel by Mateo Alemán published 1599/1604[3]
Other uses of Guzman
- National University of Education Enrique Guzmán y Valle, a Peruvian institution of higher education
- Prix Guzman, French Académie des Sciences prize for successful interplanetary communication
- Sinaloa Cartel, a drug cartel sometimes called the Guzman-Loera Organization
Notes
- ↑ Earlier writers on the name had suggested it was of more ancient, gothic origin. Alberto and Arturo García Carraffa in their Enciclopedia heráldica y genealógica hispano-americana (1919) believed the name to be germanic from "good man", while Julio de Atienza, in Nobiliario español: Diccionario heráldico de apellidos españoles y de títulos nobiliarios (1949), suggested that the Guzmans came from Germany and settled in Burgos in 950, and the name is a corruption of Gudemaro, the Spanish form of the name of a gothic king.[2] Neither provided evidence for their suggestions and the early examples of the name show its toponymic form, while their dating of the family's origin predates the use of surnames in Iberia by more than a century.
References
- ↑ Gonzalo Martínez Díez "Orígenes familiares de Santo Domingo, los linajes de Aza y Guzmán", in Luis Vicente Díez Martín and Cándido Aniz Iriarte, eds., Santo Domingo de Caleruega en sus contexto socio-político, 1170-1221. (Monumenta Histórica Iberoamericana de la Orden de Predicadores, 5) Jornadas de estudios medievales, Salamanca, 1994, págs. 173-228. Page 197 "No tenemos elementos para identificar con seguridad al Munio o Nuño, que fue el padre de nuestro don Rodrigo Muñoz o Núñez de Guzmán, primer caballero que usa el apelativo Guzmán."
- ↑ Donald Eugene Chipman Nuño de Guzmán y la provincia de Pánuco en Nueva España 2007 p 79
- ↑ Carroll B. Johnson Inside Guzmán de Alfarache 111 1978 p237 "In an analysis of the name "Guzmán de Alfarache" intended to demonstrate the good-evil dichotomy, Angel San ... The name "Guzmán," he suggests, derives from Germanic guter Mann and indicates righteousness, while "Alfarache," from ..."