Garfias
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɡarfias/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Garfias is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country.
- MXMexico≈1 in 8.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- BOBolivia≈1 in 33Kfew records
- PEPeru≈1 in 46K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 164 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mexico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Garfias 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #808 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | 187 | Garfias | 130 |
| US United States | — | 1,915 | 1 in 174K | 2K | Garfias | 164 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Garfias | 39 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Garfias | 15 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Garfias | 43 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- César Falcónb. 1892PEnot in their usual namePeruvian journalist, politician and writer (1892-1970)
- Pedro Garfiasb. 1901ESSpanish poet (1901-1967)
- Carlos Garfias Merlosb. 1951MXMexican Roman Catholic archbishop
- Lucila Garfiasb. 1951MXMexican politician
- Jaime Garfiasb. 1958MXresearcher, ORCID id # 0000-0001-6388-2109
- Ruben Garfiasb. 1960USAmerican actor
- José Garfiasb. 2004MXMexican racing driver
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)Evidence
(measured from records)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2K | #14,528 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.9K | #15,322 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #21,754 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 187 | #1,261 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Garfias?
- In Spanish /ɡarfias/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Garfias have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Garfias in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled garfias.
- How common is the name Garfias?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,915 people named Garfias in 2010, about 1 in 174 thousand residents.
- How common is Garfias compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Garfias is the 808th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/garfiasThe 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, “Garfias” — the 808th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.