Garlick
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 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 for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɡɑɹɫɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Garlick is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 30K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 36K
- USUnited States1 in 120K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 295 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
2,763 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Turks & Caicos Islands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Either ‘grower or seller of garlic’; perhaps from an Old English personal name Garlac ‘spear-play’; or an anglicization of Belarusian Jewish Garelick ‘distiller’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Garlick 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 | — | 2,763 | 1 in 120K | 2.8K | Garlick | 295 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Garlick | 163 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Garlick | 117 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 536K | — | Garlick | 6 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 125K | — | Garlick | 67 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Garlick | 50 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Garlick | 3 |
| TC Turks & Caicos Islands | #363 | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Garlick | 1 |
2,763 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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 nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, Archaic spelling of garlic.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
altered form of Garlich (see Gerlich).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Americanized form of Gorelik.
as a nameDictionary 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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.8K | #11,409 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.6K | #11,321 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.4K | #12,374 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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
- 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 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.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/garlickThe 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, “Garlick” — the 363rd most common surname in Turks & Caicos Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.