as a Last Name
- 686,209
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Garcia
Meaning & Origins
Spanish (García) and Portuguese: from a medieval personal name of uncertain origin. It is normally found in medieval records in the Latin form Garsea, and may well be of pre-Roman origin, perhaps akin to Basque (h)artz ‘bear’.
| 11th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 686,209
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- New Mexico
- has the most people named Garcia per capita
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