Gareis
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Gareis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. Recorded meaning: l.from a reduced form of the Latin personal name Gregorius (see Gregory).
- ARArgentina1 in 19K(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 501K
- CZCzechia1 in 535K
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
- 51 (measured from records)
- 1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
2,385 people
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
l.from a reduced form of the Latin personal name Gregorius (see Gregory). 2. metonymic occupational name for a blacksmith, from a compound of Middle High German gar(e) ‘ready’ -lTsen ‘iron’. 3. from Gero, a short form of a Germanic personal name composed with ger ‘spear’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gareis 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 | 2,385 | 1 in 19K | 2.4K | Gareis | 51 |
| US United States | 312 | 1 in 1.1M | 359 | Gareis | 21 |
| BR Brazil | 83 | 1 in 2.6M | 83 | Gareis | 21 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 874K | — | Gareis | 2 |
| CL Chile | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 501K | — | Gareis | 5 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 724K | — | Gareis | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 20 | 1 in 535K | 20 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 727K | — | Gareis | 5 |
2,385 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Gareis is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Patronym aus Rufname Gregorius oder indirekter Berufsname zu mhd. gar 'bereitgemacht' + îsen 'Eisen'; bezeugt G/J-Variation im Anlaut. 975 Tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, Familienname; G/J-Varianz im Anlaut von Patronymen: Gareis/Jahreis.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
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)
- Franz Gareisb. 1775DEGerman painter (1775-1803)
- Anton Gareisb. 1793DEGerman painter in Prague (1793–1863)
- Anton Gareis the Youngerb. 1837CZCzech painter (1837–1922)
- Karl von Gareisb. 1844DEGerman jurist and politician (1844-1923)
- Heinrich Gareisb. 1878DEGerman jurist (1878–1951)
- Martin Gareisb. 1891DEGerman General and Knight's Cross recipient (1891-1976)
- Raimo Gareisb. 1928DEGerman photographer
- Roland Gareisb. 1948ATAustrian economist
- Jennifer Gareisb. 1972USAmerican actress
- Ryan Gareisb. 1998USAmerican soccer 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2.4K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 359 | #60,581 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 325 | #58,397 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 312 | #63,873 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 83 | #72,772 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 20 | #52,749 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Gareis come from?
- l.from a reduced form of the Latin personal name Gregorius (see Gregory). 2. metonymic occupational name for a blacksmith, from a compound of Middle High German gar(e) ‘ready’ -lTsen ‘iron’. 3. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Gareis mean?
- Recorded meaning: l.from a reduced form of the Latin personal name Gregorius (see Gregory).
- In which country does Gareis have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Gareis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gareis.
- Where is Gareis most common?
- Gareis is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 19 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gareis?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 2,385 people named Gareis, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
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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, “Gareis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.