Gàrza
surname · Latin script
Gàrza is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Singapore it is the 79th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Hispano-Celtic *cárcia; akin to Welsh crychydd, Breton kerc'heiz. Cognate with Galician garza, Mirandese garça, Asturian garza, Portuguese garça and (possibly) Catalan garsa.
- USUnited States1 in 2.3K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 47K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 84K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 491 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
147,005 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Garza in US United States, SG Singapore, ES Spain.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Hispano-Celtic *cárcia; akin to Welsh crychydd, Breton kerc'heiz. Cognate with Galician garza, Mirandese garça, Asturian garza, Portuguese garça and (possibly) Catalan garsa.
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gàrza counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #320 | 147,005 | 1 in 2.3K | 147K | Garza | 491 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,058 | 1 in 47K | 1.1K | Garza | 50 |
| AR Argentina | — | 359 | 1 in 127K | 359 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 61 | 1 in 84K | 61 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 53 | 1 in 4M | 53 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | — | 25 | 1 in 136K | 25 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | #79 | — | — | — | Garza | 6 |
147,005 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gàrza mean, and where does it come from?
- From Hispano-Celtic *cárcia; akin to Welsh crychydd, Breton kerc'heiz. Cognate with Galician garza, Mirandese garça, Asturian garza, Portuguese garça and (possibly) Catalan garsa. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Gàrza have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 147 thousand people named Gàrza, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled garza.
- Where is Gàrza most common?
- Gàrza is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gàrza?
- In the United States, the national register counted 147,005 people named Gàrza in 2010, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Gàrza compared with other names?
- In the United States, Gàrza is the 320th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gàrza” — the 320th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.