Garčia
surname · Latin script
Garčia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country, where it is the 2nd 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)
- MXMexico≈1 in 36
- NINicaragua≈1 in 41
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Garčia itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- #17 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 617 (measured from records)
- 1 in 35 (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,600,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Garcia in MX Mexico, US United States, ES Spain 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 .
Cited for this meaning 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)Garčia 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 | #2 | ≈3,600,000 est. | ≈1 in 36 | 66K | Garcia | 323 |
| 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 | ≈670,000 est. | ≈1 in 79 | 6.4K | Garcia | 247 |
| PH Philippines | #3 | ≈520,000 est. | ≈1 in 224 | — | Garcia | 202 |
| GT Guatemala | #53 | ≈440,000 est. | ≈1 in 42 | — | García | 133 |
| NI Nicaragua | #2 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 41 | 892 | Garcia | 101 |
| SV El Salvador | #4 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 47 | — | Garcia | 117 |
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); 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)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Garčia 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 Garčia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 million people named Garčia in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled garcia.
- Where is Garčia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Garčia is densest in Spain — about 1 in 35 people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Garčia?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,446,937 people named Garčia, about 1 in 35 residents.
- How common is Garčia compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Garčia is the 2nd most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gar%C4%8DiaThe 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, “Garčia” — the 2nd most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.