Garcés

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/garsɛs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Garcés is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Garcés (patronymic form of García).

rarermore common
  • ECEcuador1 in 918(measured from records)
  • COColombia≈1 in 1.7K
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 2.2K

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.

Colombia (inferred from the name graph)

≈30,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
302 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 918 (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GarcésLatin(measured from records)
ГарсесCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Garces in CL Chile, CO Colombia, VE Venezuela and 3 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)

From Spanish Garcés (patronymic form of García).

Sources 2

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Garcés 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.

Where Garcés is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CO Colombia#212≈30,000 est.≈1 in 1.7K17Garces159
EC Ecuador#16018,4071 in 91818KGarces68
BR Brazil—14,4041 in 15K14KGarces83
VE Venezuela#350≈13,000 est.≈1 in 2.2K—Garces52
PH Philippines#521≈12,000 est.≈1 in 9.1K—Garces76
CL Chile#241≈7,700 est.≈1 in 2.4K1Garces102
UY Uruguay—7701 in 4.4K770—20

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: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Garcés is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name8 spellings in the group

    Also written Garcês, Garces, Garçes, Garcès, Gárces

  • French surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Philippines, United States

    Also written Garces, Garcès, Garcês, Garçês, Garçés

  • Italian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Spain, Italy

    Also written Garces, Garcès, Gárces, Garcės, Garcês

  • Bulgarian surname15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Philippines, Peru

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian

    Also written Garces, Gårcês, Garcès, Garcês

  • Swedish surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Spain, Norway

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Garces, Garcês, Garcès

  • Persian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Iran

    Also written Garces, Garcês

23 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

100012001400160018002000Margaret of Navarre, b. 1130Blanche of Navarre, Queen of Castile, b. 1137Ramón J. Sender, b. 1901Lenín Moreno, b. 1953María Fernanda Espinosa, b. 1964Paula Garcés, b. 1974Tommy Robredo, b. 1982Luis Antonio Jiménez, b. 1984Facundo Garcés, b. 1999Borja Garcés, b. 1999

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)

FormalEstimado/a Garcés,Dear Garcés, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Garcés,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Garcés
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—4#112

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 Garcés mean, and where does it come from?
From Spanish Garcés (patronymic form of García). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Garcés?
A machine transcription gives /garsɛs/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Garcés have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 30 thousand people named Garcés in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled garces.
Where is Garcés most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Garcés is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 918 people — even though Colombia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Garcés?
In Ecuador, the national register counted 18,407 people named Garcés in 2024, about 1 in 918 residents.
How common is Garcés compared with other names?
In Colombia, Garcés is the 212th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Garcés” — the 212th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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