Garçon
surname · Latin script
Meaning: smart lad; from Toledo/Évora/Tetuán/Rio de Janeiro
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡaʁsɔ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Garçon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 509K(measured from records)
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 101K
- PLPoland1 in 154K
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
- 105 (measured from records)
- 1 in 101K (inferred from the name graph)
653 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Garcon in US United States, BR Brazil, ES Spain 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)
smart lad; from Toledo/Évora/Tetuán/Rio de Janeiro
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Garçon 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 | — | 653 | 1 in 509K | 884 | Garcon | 105 |
| BR Brazil | — | 512 | 1 in 414K | 512 | Garcon | 37 |
| PL Poland | — | 248 | 1 in 154K | 132 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 58 | 1 in 202K | 58 | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | — | 32 | 1 in 1.6M | 32 | Garcon | 14 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 1 | 1 in 101K | 1 | — | — |
| HT Haiti | #717 | — | — | listed | Garcon | 6 |
653 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the ht-potomitan-names register; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Garçon is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Même origine que Garceau.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In English, A male waiter (especially at a French restaurant).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, waiter in a bar, restaurant etc.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fro, manservant
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, oficiants (Francijā); burtiski: “zēns”
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Émile Garçonb. 1851FRFrench jurist (1851-1922)
- Maurice Garçonb. 1889FRFrench writer and lawyer (1889-1967)
- Jean Garçonb. 1928FRFrench designer
- Anne-Françoise Garçonb. 1950FRFrench historian
- Pierre Garçonb. 1959FRFrench sculptor
- Michaël Garçonb. 1971FRFrench musician
- Ségolène Garçonb. 1979FRFrench librarian and historian
- Pierre Garçonb. 1986USAmerican football player
- Twiggy Pucci GarçonUSartist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 58 | #23,738 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 32 | #60,631 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 32 | #60,133 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #329,900 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 1 | #261 |
| HT Haiti | Potomitan — Noms et prénoms haïtiens (Haitian name lexicon) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Garçon mean?
- Recorded meaning: smart lad; from Toledo/Évora/Tetuán/Rio de Janeiro
- How do you pronounce Garçon?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡaʁsɔ̃/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Garçon have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 653 people named Garçon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled garcon.
- Where is Garçon most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Garçon is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 101 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Garçon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 653 people named Garçon in 2010, about 1 in 509 thousand residents.
- How common is Garçon compared with other names?
- In Haiti, Garçon is the 717th most common surname of 1,519 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Garçon?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gar%C3%A7onThe 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, “Garçon” — the 717th most common surname in Haiti. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.