Gãndara
loc · Latin script
Gãndara is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Galician Gándara, from gándara (“wetland”).
- UYUruguay1 in 7.5K(measured from records)
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 10Kfew records
- MXMexico≈1 in 12K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 233 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gandara in MX Mexico, US United States, ES Spain and 4 more.
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)- GalicianGándara(measured from records)
- Galician rootgándara“wetland”(measured from records)
From Galician Gándara, from gándara (“wetland”).
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gãndara 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #897 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 214 | Gandara | 130 |
| US United States | — | 4,754 | 1 in 70K | 4.8K | Gandara | 233 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,101 | 1 in 16K | 3.1K | Gandara | 99 |
| GT Guatemala | #759 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Gandara | 25 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,265 | 1 in 167K | 1.3K | Gandara | 74 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 453 | 1 in 7.5K | 453 | Gandara | 20 |
| TT Trinidad & Tobago | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Gandara | 2 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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 Gãndara mean, and where does it come from?
- From Galician Gándara, from gándara (“wetland”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Gãndara have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Gãndara in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gandara.
- Where is Gãndara most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gãndara is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 7.5 thousand people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gãndara?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,754 people named Gãndara in 2010, about 1 in 70 thousand residents.
- How common is Gãndara compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Gãndara is the 897th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%A3ndaraThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Gãndara” — the 897th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.