Garat
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/xaɾat̪/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Garat is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Basque. Most prevalent in Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
- UYUruguay1 in 4.8K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 33K
- FRFrance≈1 in 56K
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 63 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)
1,366 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Basque. Most prevalent in Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian
Where in the world(measured from records)
Garat 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | — | 1,366 | 1 in 33K | 1.4K | Garat | 63 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 56K | 126 | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | #873 | 708 | 1 in 4.8K | 708 | Garat | 32 |
| ES Spain | — | 146 | 1 in 343K | 146 | Garat | 45 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Garat | 14 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 149K | — | Garat | 32 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 234K | listed | — | — |
1,366 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Garat is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hungarian, throat; mill funnel
as a wordEtymological Dictionary of Hungarian
In Albanian, definite nominative/accusative plural of garë
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, pharynx
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, parked
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)
- Dominique Garatb. 1735FRFrench Basque politician (1735-1799)
- Dominique Joseph Garatb. 1749FRFrench Basque politician (1749-1833)
- Pierre-Jean Garatb. 1762FRFrench singer (1762-1823)
- Joseph Dominique Fabry-Garatb. 1774FRFrench singer and composer
- Joseph Garatb. 1872FRFrench politician (1872-1944)
- Henri Garatb. 1902FRFrench actor and singer (1902–1959)
- Joseph Garatb. 1911FRFrench politician (1911-1990)
- Juliette Garatb. 1920FRFrench forensic pathologist (1920–2005)
- Anne-Marie Garatb. 1946FRFrench writer (1946–2022)
- Juan Garatb. 1973ARArgentine tennis 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 19 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.4K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 708 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 219 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 213 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 213 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 195 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 194 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 172 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 169 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 164 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 163 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 146 | #20,950 |
Reference works 4
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Garat mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Basque. Most prevalent in Pyrénées-Atlantiques. Recorded by Wiktionary and Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian.
- How do you pronounce Garat?
- A machine transcription gives /xaɾat̪/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Garat have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Garat, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled garat.
- Where is Garat most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Garat is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 4.8 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Garat?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,366 people named Garat, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
- How common is Garat compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Garat is the 873rd most common surname of 57,630 surnames 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/garatThe 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, “Garat” — the 873rd most common surname in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.