Garey
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Old Norse Geiri / Old Danish Geri ‘spear’; first attested Gheri 1066 DB (Sa)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɡæɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Garey is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 118K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 120K
- IEIreland≈1 in 75K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 302 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 75K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Old Norse Geiri / Old Danish Geri ‘spear’; first attested Gheri 1066 DB (Sa)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Garey 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 149K | — | Garey | 7 |
| US United States | 2,772 | 1 in 120K | 2.8K | Garey | 302 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 118K | listed | Garey | 74 |
| IT Italy | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 186K | — | Garey | 4 |
| IN India | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 4M | 3 | Garey | 9 |
| CU Cuba | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Garey | 2 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | Garey | 11 |
| IE Ireland | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Garey | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Garey | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)
Garey is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, 2. Scottish: reduced and altered form of McGarry.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, variant of Geary
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In gv, garden
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)
- Enoch Barton Gareyb. 1883USAmerican Army officer
- Michael Gareyb. 1945USAmerican computer scientist
- Jo Gareyb. 1974AUAustralian cricketer
- Jason Gareyb. 1984USAmerican soccer player
- Terry A. GareyUSUS poet and author
- James GareyUSU.S. biologist and academic
- Chuck GareyUSbasketball player
- George W GareyUSGarey, George W; class of 1825
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 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.8K | #11,377 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.8K | #10,641 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.6K | #11,459 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #193,690 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Garey mean, and where does it come from?
- from Old Norse Geiri / Old Danish Geri ‘spear’; first attested Gheri 1066 DB (Sa) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Garey?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡæɹi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Garey have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.4 thousand people named Garey in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled garey.
- How common is the name Garey?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,772 people named Garey in 2010, about 1 in 120 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gareyThe 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, “Garey”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.