Garcez
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡaxsɛs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Garcez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 15K(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 47K
- PTPortugal≈1 in 10K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 135 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
14,175 people
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Garcez 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #552 | 14,175 | 1 in 15K | 14K | Garcez | 135 |
| PT Portugal | #592 | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Garcez | 55 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Garcez | 12 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Garcez | 29 |
| US United States | — | 238 | 1 in 1.4M | 297 | Garcez | 79 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 50 | 1 in 68K | 50 | Garcez | 6 |
14,175 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Arnaldo Garcezb. 1911politician (1911-2010)
- Paulo César Garcez Marinsb. 1968BRBrazilian researcher
- Arnaldo GarcezBRBrazilian writer and poet
- Aguinaldo Silva GarcezBRresearcher
- Tomaz Garcezresearcher
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 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 14K | #1,041 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 297 | #70,918 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 238 | #79,846 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 207 | #84,310 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 50 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Garcez?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡaxsɛs/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Garcez have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Garcez, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled garcez.
- How common is the name Garcez?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 14,175 people named Garcez, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Garcez compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Garcez is the 552nd most common surname of 424,864 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/garcezThe 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, “Garcez” — the 552nd most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.