Garibay
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Castilianized form of Basque Garibai, a habitational name from a place called Garibai in Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, or from a field name composed of the elements garo ‘bracken’, ‘fern’ or gara ‘height’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡaɾiβai/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Garibay is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 10K(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 25K
- USUnited States1 in 25K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 259 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.8K (inferred from the name graph)
13,088 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Cuba, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Castilianized form of Basque Garibai, a habitational name from a place called Garibai in Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, or from a field name composed of the elements garo ‘bracken’, ‘fern’ or gara ‘height’ + (i)bai ‘stream’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Garibay 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 | — | 13,088 | 1 in 25K | 13K | Garibay | 259 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Garibay | 49 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Garibay | 27 |
| CU Cuba | #359 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Garibay | 3 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Garibay | 21 |
| SV El Salvador | #683 | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Garibay | 3 |
13,088 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. 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)
- Ricardo Garibayb. 1923MXMexican writer and journalist
- Francisco Jarab. 1941MXnot in their usual nameMexican footballer (1941–2024)
- Jane Garibayb. 1955USUS politician
- Pablo Garibayb. 1978MXMexican classical guitarist
- Peechb. 1984MXnot in their usual nameMexican guitarist and singer
- Edgar Garibayb. 1990MXMexican basketball player (born 1990)
- Orlando Garibayb. 1993MXMexican cyclist
- Amaia González de Garibayb. 1994ESSpanish handball player
- Fernando Garibayb. 2000MXAmerican music producer (born 1982)
- Danny GaribayUSAmerican music producer
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 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 13K | #2,755 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 13K | #2,791 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 9.6K | #3,408 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Garibay mean, and where does it come from?
- Castilianized form of Basque Garibai, a habitational name from a place called Garibai in Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, or from a field name composed of the elements garo ‘bracken’, ‘fern’ or gara ‘height’… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Garibay?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡaɾiβai/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Garibay have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Garibay, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled garibay.
- How common is the name Garibay?
- In the United States, the national register counted 13,088 people named Garibay in 2010, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
- How common is Garibay compared with other names?
- In Cuba, Garibay is the 359th most common surname of 21,589 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/garibayThe 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, “Garibay” — the 359th most common surname in Cuba. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.