Garçia
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Garçia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country, where it is the most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Spanish García, possibly of Basque origin. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .
- ESSpain1 in 35(measured from records)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 42
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 49
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- #17 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 617 (measured from records)
- 1 in 35 (inferred from the name graph)
1,446,937 people
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Garcia in US United States, ES Spain, VE Venezuela and 4 more and García in GT Guatemala.
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 Spanish García, possibly of Basque origin. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .
Sources 8
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Garçia 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #1 | 1,446,937 | 1 in 35 | 1.4M | Garcia | 347 |
| US United States | #8 | 1,166,120 | 1 in 285 | 1.2M | Garcia | 617 |
| CO Colombia | #4 | ≈520,000 est. | ≈1 in 94 | 6.4K | Garcia | 247 |
| PH Philippines | #3 | ≈490,000 est. | ≈1 in 223 | — | Garcia | 202 |
| VE Venezuela | #5 | ≈470,000 est. | ≈1 in 61 | — | Garcia | 155 |
| GT Guatemala | #53 | ≈300,000 est. | ≈1 in 57 | — | García | 133 |
| NI Nicaragua | #2 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 42 | 892 | Garcia | 101 |
| SV El Salvador | #4 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 49 | — | Garcia | 117 |
1,446,937 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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); RNEC — Nombres más registrados (newborn name statistics); This page contains a database of popular Nicaraguan names and surnames categorized by gender and frequency, published by. 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)
Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | Nombres de Persona en Español (Becker, 2004) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Garçia mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish García, possibly of Basque origin. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos . Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 6 other sources.
- In which country does Garçia have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 1.4 million people named Garçia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled garcia.
- Where is Garçia most common?
- Garçia is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 35 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Garçia?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,446,937 people named Garçia, about 1 in 35 residents.
- How common is Garçia compared with other names?
- In Spain, Garçia is the most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gar%C3%A7iaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Garçia” — the most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.