Garå
surname · Latin script
Garå is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Various origins: * Borrowed from Hungarian Gara, a variant of Garay. * Reduced form of O' Gara, a surname of Irish origin.
- PLPoland1 in 64K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 109K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 187K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 64K (inferred from the name graph)
2,921 people
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Gara in IN India, US United States, SE Sweden and 1 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)
Various origins: * Borrowed from Hungarian Gara, a variant of Garay. * Reduced form of O' Gara, a surname of Irish origin.
Sources 8
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Garå 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 2,921 | 1 in 454K | 2.9K | Gara | 2 |
| US United States | 613 | 1 in 543K | 713 | Gara | 12 |
| PL Poland | 602 | 1 in 64K | 303 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 184 | 1 in 1.2M | 184 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 55 | 1 in 213K | 55 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 54 | 1 in 189K | 54 | Gara | 8 |
| NO Norway | 50 | 1 in 109K | 50 | Gara | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | 45 | 1 in 187K | 45 | — | 1 |
2,921 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 Garå mean, and where does it come from?
- Various origins: * Borrowed from Hungarian Gara, a variant of Garay. * Reduced form of O' Gara, a surname of Irish origin. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and Dictionary of American Family Names and 6 other sources.
- In which country does Garå have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 2.9 thousand people named Garå, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gara.
- Where is Garå most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Garå is densest in Poland — about 1 in 64 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Garå?
- In India, the national register counted 2,921 people named Garå, about 1 in 454 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gar%C3%A5The 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, “Garå”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.