Garriss
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Gorris, Gorres or Gareis, reduced forms of the Latin personal name Gregorius (see Gregory) (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Garriss is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 233 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.1Mfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M
- LRLiberia≈1 in 240Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Garriss itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 143 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 244K (inferred from the name graph)
233 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Liberia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Garriß in DE Germany.
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)variant of Gorris, Gorres or Gareis, reduced forms of the Latin personal name Gregorius (see Gregory).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Garriss is found
(measured from records)Garriss 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 | 233 | 1 in 1.4M | 262 | Garriss | 143 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Garriss | 9 |
| DE Germany | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 3M | — | Garriß | 9 |
| LR Liberia | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 244K | — | Garriss | 1 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | — | Garriss | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Garriss | 1 |
233 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000. 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)Garriss 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 German, It could also be a variant of the French Huguenot name Garrigues.
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Garriss mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Gorris, Gorres or Gareis, reduced forms of the Latin personal name Gregorius (see Gregory). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Garriss?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 233 people named Garriss, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled garriss. After it come United Kingdom, Germany, Liberia and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Garriss?
- In the United States, the national register counted 233 people named Garriss in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/garrissThe 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, “Garriss” — ranked 69854th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.