Gara
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Garay. This is one of the few Hungarian habitational names without the regular -i suffix
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɡæɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gara is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Armenia it is the 58th most common given name.
- AMArmenia≈1 in 275as Գոռ(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 6Kas Kari
- ESSpain1 in 24K
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 Gara itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 216 (measured from records)
- 1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
55,005 named Kari, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Gauri in US United States, NO Norway, NP Nepal, Kari in FI Finland, Gor in ES Spain and Գոռ in AM Armenia.
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)
variant of Garay. This is one of the few Hungarian habitational names without the regular -i suffix.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gara 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 55,005as Kari | 1 in 6K | 75K | Gauri | 216 |
| FI Finland | — | 41,301as Kari | 1 in 135 | 57K | Kari | 6 |
| NO Norway | — | 22,263as Kari | 1 in 246 | 72K | Gauri | 4 |
| AM Armenia | #58 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 275 | 299 | Գոռ | 82 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | 21K | Gauri | 30 |
| SE Sweden | — | 3,109as Kari | 1 in 3.3K | 3.1K | Gouri | 7 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,106 | 1 in 24K | 12K | Gor | 50 |
| IS Iceland | — | 937as Kári | 1 in 374 | 937 | — | — |
55,005 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling kari. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia — Most Frequent Newborn Given Names by Sex, Armenian script, 2008-2020 + 2023; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Gara is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hungarian, Parsi name of unknown meaning.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Hungarian, reduced form of O’Gara.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
El roquedal
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
fluid.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Azor
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)
- Sisto Gara della Rovereb. 1473ITItalian cardinal (1473–1517)
- Józef Garab. 1929PLPolish writer (1929–2013)
- Teresa Żylis-Garab. 1935PLPolish operatic soprano (1930–2021)
- Alaskab. 1963MXnot in their usual nameSpanish and Mexican singer, songwriter and actress
- Les Garab. 1963USAmerican politician
- Jeremy Garab. 1978CACanadian drummer
- Mehdi Garab. 1981TNTunisian volleyball player
- Anita Garab. 1983HUHungarian chess player
- Ticia Garab. 1984HUHungarian chess player
- Dave Garab. 2000USAmerican drummer
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 47 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.1K | #1,664 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.8K | #936 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 713 | #34,261 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 613 | #36,477 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 565 | #37,145 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 378 | #23,687 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 54 | #11,824 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 50 | #26,011 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 34 | #23,687 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #12,124 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #12,570 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 21 | #23,699 |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Gara mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Garay. This is one of the few Hungarian habitational names without the regular -i suffix. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gara?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡæɹə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Gara have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 55 thousand people named Kari, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gara most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gara is densest in Spain — about 1 in 24 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gara?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,106 people named Gara, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
- How common is Gara compared with other names?
- In Armenia, Gara is the 58th most common given name of 7,577 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/garaThe 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, “Gara” — the 58th most common given name in Armenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.