Garriga
surname · Latin script
Meaning: topographic name, from garriga ‘barren land, where only holm oaks grow’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ɡaˈri.ɣ̞a/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Garriga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 9.3K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 57K
- ARArgentina1 in 70K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.3K (inferred from the name graph)
5,401 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
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)topographic name, from garriga ‘barren land, where only holm oaks grow’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Garriga is found
(measured from records)Garriga 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 5,401 | 1 in 9.3K | 5.4K | Garriga | 10 |
| US United States | 1,144 | 1 in 291K | 1.1K | — | 2 |
| AR Argentina | 647 | 1 in 70K | 647 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 75 | 1 in 2.8M | 75 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 59 | 1 in 57K | 59 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 13 | 1 in 646K | 13 | — | — |
5,401 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Garriga is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, garrigue
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)- Eduardo Mendoza Garrigab. 1943ESSpanish writer
- Pierre Oriolab. 1992ESnot in their usual nameSpanish basketball player (born 1992)
- Gerard Gumbaub. 1994ESnot in their usual nameCatalan footballer
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Garriga mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name, from garriga ‘barren land, where only holm oaks grow’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Garriga?
- In Spanish /ɡaˈri.ɣ̞a/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Garriga?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 5.4 thousand people named Garriga, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled garriga. After it come United States, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Garriga most common?
- Garriga is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 9.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Garriga?
- In Spain, the national register counted 5,401 people named Garriga, about 1 in 9.3 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/garrigaThe 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, “Garriga”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.