Garceau
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nickname from a derivative of gars ‘boy’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡɑɹˈsoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Garceau is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 35K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 165K
- USUnited States1 in 204K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 232 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
1,630 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
nickname from a derivative of gars ‘boy’. The surname is particularly associated with Acadia, and hence also with the Cajuns of LA.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Garceau 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 | 1,630 | 1 in 204K | 1.6K | Garceau | 232 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Garceau | 92 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 486K | — | Garceau | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 165K | — | Garceau | 16 |
| FR France | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 215K | 32 | Garceau | 116 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Garceau | 4 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 176K | — | Garceau | 2 |
| PS Palestine | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 183K | — | Garceau | 1 |
1,630 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; 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)
Garceau 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.
In French, Dérivé de l’ancien français gars « valet, domestique ».
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
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)
- Napoléon Garceaub. 1868CACanadian politician
- Raymond Garceaub. 1919CACanadian film director (1919-1994)
- Roger Garceaub. 1921CACanadian actor (1921-2001)
- Brigitte Garceaub. 1964CACanadian politician
- Catherine Garceaub. 1978CACanadian synchronized swimmer
- Suzanne GarceauCACanadian actress
- Claude GarceauCAphysician and professor at Université Laval
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 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.6K | #16,230 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,337 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,083 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 59 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 54 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 50 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 46 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 43 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 42 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 41 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 39 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 37 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Where does the name Garceau come from?
- nickname from a derivative of gars ‘boy’. The surname is particularly associated with Acadia, and hence also with the Cajuns of LA. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Garceau?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡɑɹˈsoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Garceau mean?
- Recorded meaning: nickname from a derivative of gars ‘boy’.
- In which country does Garceau have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Garceau, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled garceau.
- How common is the name Garceau?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,630 people named Garceau in 2010, about 1 in 204 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/garceauThe 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, “Garceau”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.