Garzon
surname · Latin script
Meaning: l.from garzon ‘boy’, ‘lad’ (from French gargonf, probably a nickname with derogatory overtones
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡaɾθon/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Garzon 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.
- COColombia≈1 in 600(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)
- Sources
- 290 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 600 (inferred from the name graph)
≈82,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Garzon 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 | ≈82,000 est. | ≈1 in 600 | 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 |
| AR Argentina | #588 | 8,362 | 1 in 5.4K | 8.4K | Garzon | 82 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Garzon | 39 |
| NI Nicaragua | #405 | ≈820 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); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Garzon is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, do fr. garçon, ‘jovem, moço, serviçal’
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)
- Jaime Garzónb. 1960COColombian comedian, journalist, politician, and peace activist (1960-1999)
- Jesús Eugenio Rodríguezb. 1967CUnot in their usual nameCuban wrestler
- Stefano Garzonb. 1981ITItalian footballer
- May Garzonb. 1990ATAustrian actress
- Krystal Larab. 1998USnot in their usual nameDominican / American swimmer
- Itsaso Garzonb. 2000ESactor
- Diego Enrique Silva GarzonCHanthropologist
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 28 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- Where does the name Garzon 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.
- How do you pronounce Garzon?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡaɾθon/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Garzon mean?
- Recorded meaning: l.from garzon ‘boy’, ‘lad’ (from French gargonf, probably a nickname with derogatory overtones.
- In which country does Garzon have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 82 thousand people named Garzon in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled garzon.
- How common is the name Garzon?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 15,634 people named Garzon in 2024, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Garzon compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Garzon 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/garzonThe 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, “Garzon” — the 63rd most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.