Garzôn
surname · Latin script
Garzôn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country, where it is the 63rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: l.from garzon ‘boy’, ‘lad’ (from French gargonf, probably a nickname with derogatory overtones. 2. from an augmentative of garza ‘heron’. 3. Garzôn is also written Гарзон in Cyrillic.
- COColombia≈1 in 440(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 1.1K
- ESSpain1 in 3.9K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 290 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 438 (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Garzôn in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Garzon in CO Colombia, AR Argentina, MX Mexico 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)l.from garzon ‘boy’, ‘lad’ (from French gargonf, probably a nickname with derogatory overtones. 2. from an augmentative of garza ‘heron’. 3. habitational name from any of three places in Andalusia named Garzon. The surname is found among Sephardic Jews in Morocco.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Garzôn is found
(measured from records)Garzôn 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #63 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 438 | 60 | Garzon | 173 |
| EC Ecuador | #229 | 15,634 | 1 in 1.1K | 16K | Garzon | 73 |
| ES Spain | #381 | 12,665 | 1 in 3.9K | 13K | Garzon | 142 |
| MX Mexico | #981 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 267 | Garzon | 122 |
| AR Argentina | #588 | 8,362 | 1 in 5.4K | 8.4K | Garzon | 82 |
| NI Nicaragua | #405 | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | — | Garzon | 16 |
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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names. 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 Garzôn mean, and where does it come from?
- l.from garzon ‘boy’, ‘lad’ (from French gargonf, probably a nickname with derogatory overtones. 2. from an augmentative of garza ‘heron’. 3. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Garzôn?
- Mondonomo estimates about 121 thousand people named Garzôn in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled garzon. After it come Ecuador, Spain, Mexico and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Garzôn?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 15,634 people named Garzôn in 2024, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Garzôn compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Garzôn is the 63rd most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/garz%C3%B4nThe 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, “Garzôn” — ranked 58th in Colombia (the co-datosgov-candidates register). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.