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Around the world, García (Garcia , García , ガルシア , among others...) is a common gender-neutral first name. The first name García is characteristic of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it is quite a common epicene name, Guatemala, and Angola, where it is quite a rare primarily masculine, but scarcely female name. More frequently, García is the last name as well as the forename.
García is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Garcia , the operatic character in the opera Conchita.