García
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Vasco: procede de un topónimo; originariamente 'el del peñascal alto y empinado'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
García is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country, where it is the most common surname.
- ESSpain1 in 35(measured from records)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 42
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 49
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- #17 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 617 (measured from records)
- 1 in 35 (inferred from the name graph)
1,446,937 people
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Garcia in US United States, ES Spain, VE Venezuela and 4 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)
Vasco: procede de un topónimo; originariamente 'el del peñascal alto y empinado'.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
García 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #1 | 1,446,937 | 1 in 35 | 1.4M | Garcia | 347 |
| US United States | #8 | 1,166,120 | 1 in 285 | 1.2M | Garcia | 617 |
| CO Colombia | #4 | ≈520,000 est. | ≈1 in 94 | 6.4K | Garcia | 247 |
| PH Philippines | #3 | ≈490,000 est. | ≈1 in 223 | — | Garcia | 202 |
| VE Venezuela | #5 | ≈470,000 est. | ≈1 in 61 | — | Garcia | 155 |
| GT Guatemala | #53 | ≈300,000 est. | ≈1 in 57 | — | García | 133 |
| NI Nicaragua | #2 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 42 | 892 | Garcia | 101 |
| SV El Salvador | #4 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 49 | — | Garcia | 117 |
1,446,937 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RNEC — Nombres más registrados (newborn name statistics); This page contains a database of popular Nicaraguan names and surnames categorized by gender and frequency, published by. 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)
García 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.
Poderoso con la lanza
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)
- Benito Juárezb. 1806MXnot in their usual namePresident of Mexico from 1858 to 1872
- Rubén Darío pornob. 1867NInot in their usual nameNicaraguan poet, journalist, writer, and diplomat (1867-1916)1011
- Federico García Lorcab. 1898ESSpanish poet, dramatist and prose writer (1898–1936)
- Alfonso García Roblesb. 1911MXMexican diplomat and politician (1911-1991)
- José Felicianob. 1945USnot in their usual namePuerto Rican musician
- Alan Garcíab. 1949PEPresident of Peru (1985–1990 and 2006–2011)
- Andy Garcíab. 1956CUAmerican actor and director (born 1956)
- Aimee Garciab. 1978USAmerican actress
- Mario Gómezb. 1985DEnot in their usual nameGerman-Spanish association football player (born 1985)
- Radamel Falcaob. 1986COnot in their usual nameColombian association football player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | RNEC — Nombres más registrados (newborn name statistics) | 2019 | 6.4K | #4 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 27 | #89 |
Reference works 4
- 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)
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 García mean?
- Recorded meaning: Vasco: procede de un topónimo; originariamente 'el del peñascal alto y empinado'.
- In which country does García have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 1.4 million people named García, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled garcia.
- Where is García most common?
- García is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 35 people carrying it.
- How common is the name García?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,446,937 people named García, about 1 in 35 residents.
- How common is García compared with other names?
- In Spain, García is the most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/garc%C3%ADaThe 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, “García” — the most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.