Gare
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: early or northern form of GORE, Old English gāra; first attested Alvred de la Gare 1219 Cur (K)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡɛɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gare 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
- FIFinland1 in 135as Kari
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 Gare 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 135 (inferred from the name graph)
55,005 named Kari, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland, as Kari
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, Գոռ in AM Armenia and Gouri in SE Sweden.
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)
early or northern form of GORE, Old English gāra; first attested Alvred de la Gare 1219 Cur (K)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Gare is read(measured from records)
Gare is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Hindi38%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Gare in Hindi.
- English31%
early or northern form of GORE, Old English gāra; first attested Alvred de la Gare 1219 Cur (K)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
coarse wool on the legs of sheep
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French9.0%
railway station
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish6.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Gare in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gare 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 |
| 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; 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)
Gare is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In enm, alternative form of gor (“spear”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Luxembourgish, railway depot, railroad station, railway station, train station
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, train station or platform
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Paul Gareb. 1952AUactor from Hong Kong
- Shelley Gareb. 1952AUAustralian journalist
- Danny Gareb. 1954CACanadian ice hockey player
- Morey Gareb. 1962CACanadian ice hockey player
- Anna Gareb. 1969AUAustralian musician and television personality
- Lanny Gareb. 1978CACanadian-German ice hockey 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 152 | #120,164 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 135 | #126,765 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 134 | #119,644 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 56 | #24,411 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 4 | #61,542 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #71,793 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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 Gare mean, and where does it come from?
- early or northern form of GORE, Old English gāra; first attested Alvred de la Gare 1219 Cur (K) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Gare?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɛɹ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Gare 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 Gare most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Gare itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Finland's: the national register counts about 1 in 135 people named Kari.
- How common is the name Gare?
- In the United States, the national register counted 55,005 people named Kari in 2020, about 1 in 6.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Gare compared with other names?
- In Armenia, Gare 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/gareThe 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, “Gare” — the 58th most common given name in Armenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.