Garbi

loc · Latin script

Meaning: Gharb, Maroc

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Garbi is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil
  • ESSpain

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
56 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Gharb, Maroc

Sources 1

  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Garbi counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Garbi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—601Garbi56
ES Spain—161Garbi38
AR Argentina—211—33
FR France—27—1
UY Uruguay—16—6

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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Garbi is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria

    Also written Ğarbi

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Garbí, Ġarbī, Ğarbi, Ǧarbī

  • Arabic given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria, Tunisia

    Also written Ğarbi, Gârbï, Ġarbī, Gãrbï, Gàrbî

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Garbí

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Ġarbī, Garbí

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Garbi 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 Italian, forma plural de Garbo

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • Pura, clara

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In Basque, clean; pure; free of sin; chaste (of a woman)

    as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)

  • In Polish, third-person singular present of garbić

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Italian, inflection of garbare:

    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)

1700180019002000Anton Maria Garbi, b. 1718Domenico Garbi, b. 1750Katy Garbi, b. 1961Liana Garbi, b. 1963Yasmine Garbi, b. 1970

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 19 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Garbi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—601#14,441
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—211—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—161#19,438
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—161#19,391
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199127—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198126—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196126—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197125—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195117—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—16—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194113—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192112—

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 Garbi mean, and where does it come from?
Gharb, Maroc Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
In which country does Garbi have the most bearers?
Garbi is most frequently recorded in Brazil, where it is most often spelled garbi.

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About this data

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Garbi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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