Garel
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡaʁɛl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Garel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 834K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 134 (measured from records)
- 1 in 834K (inferred from the name graph)
220 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Spain
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)
Garel 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 | 220 | 1 in 1.5M | 233 | Garel | 134 |
| IN India | 67 | 1 in 20M | 67 | Garel | 5 |
| ES Spain | 60 | 1 in 834K | 60 | Garel | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 3 | 1 in 3.9M | 3 | — | 4 |
| CZ Czechia | 3 | 1 in 3.6M | 3 | — | — |
220 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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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)
Garel 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 roa-poi, variegated
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)
- Jean Garelb. 1852FRFrench physician
- Georges Garelb. 1909FRWWII French Resistance fighter
- Leo Garelb. 1917artist
- Lili Garelb. 1921FRWWII French Resistance fighter
- Philippe Garelb. 1945FRFrench artist
- Giuseppe Ferro Garelb. 1958ITItalian priest and theologian (born 1958)
- Hervé Garelb. 1967FRcyclist
- Quentin Garelb. 1975FRFrench sculptor
- Saskia Garelb. 1977CACanadian actress
- Adrien Garelb. 1996FRFrench cyclist
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 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 233 | #76,700 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 227 | #87,947 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 220 | #85,049 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 67 | #36,933 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 60 | #39,267 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 60 | #39,093 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 6 | #3,137 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #123,123 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 3 | #142,974 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #37,740 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Garel?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡaʁɛl/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Garel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 220 people named Garel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled garel.
- Where is Garel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Garel is densest in Spain — about 1 in 834 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Garel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 220 people named Garel in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Garel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/garelThe 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, “Garel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.