Gargas

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Altered form of Garrigus, an Americanized form of the French Huguenot name Garrigues

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ɡɑɹɡəz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Gargas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 57K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 587K
  • USUnited States1 in 1.1M

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.

Poland (measured from records)

671 people, 2026

Sources
42 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 57K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Altered form of Garrigus, an Americanized form of the French Huguenot name Garrigues.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gargas 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.

Where Gargas is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland6711 in 57K340Gargas42
US United States3071 in 1.1M315Gargas28
BR Brazil351 in 6M35——
DK Denmark101 in 587K10——
ES Spain61 in 8.3M6—3
CZ Czechia31 in 3.6M3——
SE Sweden21 in 5.1M2——

671 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); MVČR — living population register 2017; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gargas is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Gargaś

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Guatemala, Canada, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Gargaś

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gargaś

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Gargaś

  • Czech surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia

    Also written Gargaš, Gargaś

  • Danish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, United States

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Gargás

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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)

FormalDear Gargas,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 15 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Gargas
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026340—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—340#9,772
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026331—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—331#9,855
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000315#59,916
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020309#68,578
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010307#64,721
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—35#134,170
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—10#39,581
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—6#154,812
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—2#68,834
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

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 Gargas mean, and where does it come from?
Altered form of Garrigus, an Americanized form of the French Huguenot name Garrigues. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Gargas?
A machine transcription gives /ɡɑɹɡəz/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Gargas have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 671 people named Gargas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gargas.
Where is Gargas most common?
Gargas is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 57 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Gargas?
In Poland, the national register counted 671 people named Gargas in 2026, about 1 in 57 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, “Gargas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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