Garlick

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.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Garlick is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Russian surname7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, United States, United Kingdom

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Гарлик, Гарлік, Garlik

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

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Garlick is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• from Middle English garlek ‘garlic’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of garlic or perhaps a nickname for someone who ate a lot of garlic. An alternative derivation of the English name is from an unrecorded survival into Middle English of the Old English personal name Gdrldc, which is composed of the elements gar ‘spear’ + lac ‘sport’, ‘play’.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In English, Archaic spelling of garlic.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• altered form of Garlich (see Gerlich).

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• Americanized form of Gorelik.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

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.

• Nicholas Garlickb. 1550GBEnglish Catholic priest and martyr
• Eunice Harriett Garlickb. 1883NZNew Zealand photographer (1883–1951)
• Raymond Garlickb. 1926GBPoet, academic (1926–2011)
• Stephen Garlickb. 1959GBactor
• Sean Garlickb. 1969AUAustralian rugby league footballer
• Scott Garlickb. 1972USAmerican soccer player
• Jessica Garlickb. 1981GBWelsh singer
• Kyle Garlickb. 1992USAmerican baseball player
• Cathy GarlickAUcricketer
• Denise GarlickUSpolitician in Massachusetts, US

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).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Garlick mean, and where does it come from?

Either ‘grower or seller of garlic’; perhaps from an Old English personal name Garlac ‘spear-play’; or an anglicization of Belarusian Jewish Garelick ‘distiller’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].

What are other forms of the name Garlick?

In the etymology graph, Garlic is a form of the same name in other languages.

How do you pronounce Garlick?

A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɑɹɫɪk/ (IPA) for English.

In which country does Garlick have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 2.8 thousand people named Garlick, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled garlick.

How common is the name Garlick?

In the United States, the national register counted 2,763 people named Garlick in 2010, about 1 in 120 thousand residents.

How common is Garlick compared with other names?

In Turks & Caicos Islands, Garlick is the 363rd most common surname of 3,662 surnames recorded there.