Garcìa Surname
Approximately 922 people bear this surname
Garcìa Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 523 | 1:237,335 | 5,975 |
| Guatemala | 112 | 1:143,595 | 3,344 |
| Dominican Republic | 54 | 1:193,202 | 7,170 |
| Spain | 37 | 1:1,263,569 | 42,239 |
| Ecuador | 36 | 1:441,829 | 10,328 |
| Argentina | 26 | 1:1,643,977 | 88,124 |
| Venezuela | 24 | 1:1,258,503 | 17,711 |
| Uruguay | 22 | 1:155,989 | 13,535 |
| Panama | 16 | 1:244,516 | 6,353 |
| Nicaragua | 14 | 1:430,078 | 3,469 |
| Peru | 8 | 1:3,973,015 | 32,693 |
| Chile | 7 | 1:2,516,639 | 33,195 |
| Costa Rica | 6 | 1:796,678 | 5,462 |
| Honduras | 5 | 1:1,763,288 | 5,823 |
| Cuba | 4 | 1:2,880,679 | 10,064 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Italy | 3 | 1:20,385,563 | 143,117 |
| Colombia | 3 | 1:15,924,691 | 28,711 |
| Paraguay | 3 | 1:2,412,249 | 13,111 |
| Canada | 3 | 1:12,281,864 | 364,614 |
| Puerto Rico | 2 | 1:1,775,070 | 6,602 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| El Salvador | 1 | 1:6,343,888 | 8,415 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Singapore | 1 | 1:5,507,703 | 47,049 |
| Bolivia | 1 | 1:10,616,434 | 17,077 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
The alternate forms: Garcia (10,671,483), Garcïa (18), Gärcìa (1), Gárcia (11) & Gärcïa (1) are calculated separately.
Garcìa Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Garcìa Come From? nationality or country of origin
Garcìa occurs more in Mexico more than any other country/territory. It can be found in the variant forms: Garcia, Garcïa, Gärcìa, Gárcia or Gärcïa. Click here for further possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Garcìa? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 385,337th most widely held surname world-wide It is held by around 1 in 7,904,063 people. This last name is predominantly found in The Americas, where 95 percent of Garcìa live; 57 percent live in North America and 57 percent live in Hispano-North America.
The surname is most widely held in Mexico, where it is held by 523 people, or 1 in 237,335. In Mexico it is most prevalent in: México, where 19 percent reside, Mexico City, where 16 percent reside and Jalisco, where 9 percent reside. Barring Mexico Garcìa exists in 29 countries. It is also found in Guatemala, where 12 percent reside and The Dominican Republic, where 6 percent reside.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
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