Guadalupe is from the Spanish Guadalupe — foundational from Arabic wadi (river) + Latin lupus (wolf) — river of the wolf + foundational also possible from Arabic al-Lupp (foundational hidden river). A modern American baby name in the broader Latin American + Mexican-Catholic heritage aesthetic. Guadalupe is one of the foundational Spanish + Latin American feminine names — central to traditional Mexican Catholic heritage. The foundational name connects to foundational Our Lady of Guadalupe (Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe) — foundational Mexican patron saint + foundational apparition of foundational Virgin Mary to foundational Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin (foundational Nahua peasant + foundational canonized 2002) at foundational Tepeyac Hill Mexico City foundational December 9-12, 1531 + foundational image foundational miraculously imprinted on Juan Diego's tilma (cloak) + foundational housed at foundational Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe Mexico City (foundational most-visited Catholic pilgrimage site in the world + foundational ~20 million annual visitors) + foundational Día de la Virgen de Guadalupe December 12 + foundational central to foundational Mexican national identity + foundational Empress of the Americas + foundational pioneering Indigenous-Catholic syncretism heritage. Foundational Latin American feminine name reflecting Mexican-Catholic foundational heritage.
Featured throughout Latin American heritage.
Guadalupe does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Guadalupe reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.