Garin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the Germanic personal name G(u)arinus, from wari(n)- ‘protection’, ‘shelter’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡaɾin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Garin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 1.9K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 18K
- ARArgentina1 in 23K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 96 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the Germanic personal name G(u)arinus, from wari(n)- ‘protection’, ‘shelter’. This name is also found in Switzerland and may have been brought to the U.S. from there.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Garin 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.
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); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); e-services.md — living population register. 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)
Garin is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
patronymic from a short form of the personal name Gerasim.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Italian, variante dialetal setentrional, redução de Garino
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Guarino
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
Guerrero
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In pro, a male given name, equivalent to English Warren?
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)
- Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovskyb. 1852RURussian writer and engineer (1852–1906)
- Maurice Garinb. 1871FRFrench cyclist (1871–1957)
- César Garinb. 1879ITItalian bicycle racer (1879-1951)
- Eugenio Garinb. 1909ITItalian philosopher and historian of philosophy (1909-2004)
- Felipe Garín Llombartb. 1943ESSpanish art historian and museographer (1943–2023)
- Fabrice Garinb. 1975FRfootballer
- Laila Garinb. 1978BRBrazilian television actor
- Vadim Garinb. 1979RURussian footballer
- Vladimir Garinb. 1987RURussian actor (1987–2003)
- Salvador Garin ZabalaESSpanish politician
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 47 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.8K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.6K | #2,976 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.6K | #2,974 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 742 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 640 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 623 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 612 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 564 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 539 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 495 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 444 | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- Where does the name Garin come from?
- from the Germanic personal name G(u)arinus, from wari(n)- ‘protection’, ‘shelter’. This name is also found in Switzerland and may have been brought to the U.S. from there. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Garin?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡaɾin/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Garin mean?
- Recorded meaning: from the Germanic personal name G(u)arinus, from wari(n)- ‘protection’, ‘shelter’.
- In which country does Garin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.2 thousand people named Garin in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled garin.
- Where is Garin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Garin is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 1.9 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Garin?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,998 people named Garin, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
- How common is Garin compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Garin is the 327th most common surname of 57,630 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/garinThe 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, “Garin” — the 327th most common surname in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.