Garau
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Italian: a surname from Sardinian
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡaɾau/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Garau is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 30K
- ARArgentina1 in 133K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 143 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
alternative form of Guerau
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Garau is read(measured from records)
Garau is one spelling over 5 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.
- Spanish48%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Garau in Spanish.
- Italian16%
a surname from Sardinian
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Garau in French.
- English7.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Garau in English.
- Catalan7.5%
alternative form of Guerau
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Garau 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.
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the xinhua-italian-manual register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Garau 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 Basque, grain (the seed of various grass food crops)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zlm, deep (of the voice), harsh
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Malay, deep (of a voice)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bcm, rain
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Carles Garau i Tornabellsb. 1896ESSpanish architect (1896-1958)
- Pere Garau i Canyellesb. 1900ESSpanish engineer
- Antonio Garaub. 1907ITItalian writer (1907-1988)
- Climent Garau Salvàb. 1913ESSpanish musician (1913-2013)
- Climent Garau Arbonab. 1924ESSpanish pharmacist and politician (1924-2015)
- Javier Garaub. 1945USresearcher
- Mariano Garaub. 1952ITItalian composer
- Salvatore Garaub. 1953ITItalian artist (born 1953)
- Marina Garau Rocab. 2002ESSpanish cyclist
- Antoni Gueraunot in their usual name-1657
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 21 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.7K | #2,813 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.7K | #2,812 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 341 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 96 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 76 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 71 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 58 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 57 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 56 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 47 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 42 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 42 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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 Garau come from?
- alternative form of Guerau Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Garau?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡaɾau/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Garau mean?
- In Italian, a surname from Sardinian
- In which country does Garau have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.7 thousand people named Garau in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled garau.
- How common is the name Garau?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,673 people named Garau, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
- How common is Garau compared with other names?
- In Italy, Garau is the 920th most common surname of 502,013 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Garau?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/garauThe 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, “Garau” — the 920th most common surname in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.