Gars
surname · Latin script
Meaning: OF gars boy, lad (apparently of Gmc origin)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gars is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 58K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 378K
- ESSpain≈1 in 1.3M
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 Gars 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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 179 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
OF gars boy, lad (apparently of Gmc origin). Var.: Garnet.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gars 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 58K | 30 | Gars | 179 |
| US United States | 117as Gaas | 1 in 2.8M | 124 | Gars | 4 |
| ES Spain | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Gars | 2 |
| FI Finland | 30as Gaas | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 27 | 1 in 378K | 27 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 24as Gaas | 1 in 228K | 24 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 11as Gaas | 1 in 534K | 11 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Gars is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, lad, guy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fro, nominative singular of garçon
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of gras
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Afrikaans, barley
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nrm, gander
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 50 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 44 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 43 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 40 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 37 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 31 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 30 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 29 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 27 | #20,283 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 22 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- How do you pronounce Gars?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡa/ (IPA) for French.
- Where does the name Gars come from?
- OF gars boy, lad (apparently of Gmc origin). Var.: Garnet. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- What does the name Gars mean?
- Recorded meaning: OF gars boy, lad (apparently of Gmc origin).
- In which country does Gars have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Gars in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gars.
- How common is the name Gars?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 27 people named Gars, about 1 in 378 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/garsThe 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, “Gars”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.