Garín

surname · Latin script

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

/garin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Garín is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from the Germanic personal name G(u)arinus, from wari(n)- ‘protection’, ‘shelter’. This name is also found in Switzerland and may have been brought to the U.S. from there.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 363K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 1.9K
  • ARArgentina1 in 23K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Argentina (measured from records)

1,998 people

Sources
210 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Garin in US United States, ES Spain, BE Belgium and 1 more.

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)

from the Germanic personal name G(u)arinus, from wari(n)- ‘protection’, ‘shelter’. This name is also found in Switzerland and may have been brought to the U.S. from there.

Sources 4

  • 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Garín 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 Garín is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina1,9981 in 23K2K—1
UY Uruguay1,7731 in 1.9K1.8K——
ES Spain1,5721 in 32K1.6KGarin44
US United States9161 in 363K1KGarin210
BR Brazil4591 in 461K459—1
BE Belgium3111 in 38K311Garin14
CH Switzerland1491 in 56K149Garin13

1,998 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Garín is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Garin

  • Portuguese surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Philippines, United States, Spain

    Also written Garin, Garìn

  • Russian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Гарин, Гарін, Garin

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, Belgium, United States

    Also written Garin, Gãrin

  • Thai surname26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Laos, Philippines, Chile

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written การินทร์, กรินทร์, Garin, กุรินทร์, ก๋ารินทร์

  • Turkish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Spain, United States, Türkiye

    Languages: Turkish, Turkmen

    Also written Garin

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Garin

12 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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)

FormalEstimado/a Garín,Dear Garín, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Garín,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.

Reference works 1

  • 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 Garín mean, and where does it come from?
from the Germanic personal name G(u)arinus, from wari(n)- ‘protection’, ‘shelter’. This name is also found in Switzerland and may have been brought to the U.S. from there. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and Dictionary of American Family Names and 2 other sources.
How do you pronounce Garín?
A machine transcription gives /garin/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Garín have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Garín, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Garín most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Garín is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 1.9 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Garín?
In Argentina, the national register counted 1,998 people named Garín, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.

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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, “Garín”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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