Where the Guerrero name comes from

Guerrero is a surname of Spanish Basque origin, and it means warrior. It grew out of the Spanish common noun guerrero, the word for a warrior. In English, the word warrior is a doublet of Guerrero.

The surname passed from Spanish into Tagalog, where it keeps the same spelling. In 2014 it was the 204th most common surname in the Philippines, carried by 35,609 people. The Mexican state of Guerrero takes its name from Vicente Guerrero, a revolutionary general in the Mexican War of Independence.