Garnica

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Garnica is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. Recorded meaning: variant of Gernika, a habitational name from Guernica in Biscay, Basque Country.

rarermore common
  • BOBolivia≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ARArgentina1 in 3K
  • COColombia≈1 in 6.5K

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.

Argentina (measured from records)

14,933 people

Sources
226 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Bolivia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

variant of Gernika, a habitational name from Guernica in Biscay, Basque Country.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Garnica 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 Garnica is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#44714,9331 in 3K15KGarnica66
CO Colombia#583≈7,500 est.≈1 in 6.5K6Garnica101
BO Bolivia#130≈6,100 est.≈1 in 1.9K—Garnica44
US United States—5,9411 in 56K5.9KGarnica226
CN China—≈4,300 est.≈1 in 323K—Garnica2
CL Chile#955≈1,300 est.≈1 in 14K—Garnica50
VE Venezuela—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 27K—Garnica25

14,933 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Garnica is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ğâřňîčâ, Garñica, Gárnica, Garníca

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Gárnica, Garníca

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines, Spain

    Also written Gärnïcä

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines

    Also written Gárnica

  • Russian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Russia, Peru

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Garníca

38 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Garnica is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latvian, Tilpuma mērvienība cariskās Krievijas laikā - 3,27984 litri, četverika astotā daļa; šāda tilpuma mērtrauks

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Vielas daudzums, kas ietilpst šādā mērtraukā

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

1850190019502000Pablo Garnica y Echevarría, b. 1876Manuel Garnica Serrano, b. 1891Julia Garnica, b. 1906José María Hernández Garnica, b. 1913Pedro de Zubiria Garnica, b. 1934Juan Alfredo Oropeza Garnica, b. 1950Paloma Sánchez-Garnica, b. 1962Sigisfredo Garnica, b. 1966Manuel Garnica, b. 1974

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 21 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Garnica
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—15K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020105.9K#5,820
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020205.7K#5,849
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020004.1K#7,452
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—6#110
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 Garnica mean, and where does it come from?
variant of Gernika, a habitational name from Guernica in Biscay, Basque Country. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Garnica have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Garnica, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled garnica.
How common is the name Garnica?
In Argentina, the national register counted 14,933 people named Garnica, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
How common is Garnica compared with other names?
In Argentina, Garnica is the 447th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Garnica” — the 447th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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