indicate the level to which a name has been verified.
Type Surname (from occupation & from location)
Meaning & History
From Spanish and Italian guardia "guard watch" a topographic name for someone who lived by a watch place by a watchtower or a habitational name from any of numerous places called La Guardia named with the same word; or a metonymic occupational name for someone who kept watch or for a member of the town guard. Cognate of Ward 1.