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The GARCIA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 858,289 8 0.318 3,182
United States (1880 census) 9,627 627 0.019 193
Change since 1880 +848662 +619 +0.299 +2989
Other Countries
Australia 1,738 934 0.011 106
United Kingdom 2,412 2526 0.005 53
Top States for GARCIA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 242,445 1 0.716 7,158
Texas 206,121 2 0.989 9,885
Florida 74,936 10 0.469 4,689
Illinois 36,800 9 0.296 2,963
New York 34,255 15 0.181 1,805
Top States for GARCIA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Mexico 22,986 2 1.264 12,636
Texas 206,121 2 0.989 9,885
California 242,445 1 0.716 7,158
Arizona 30,386 3 0.592 5,922
Nevada 11,058 3 0.553 5,534

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called GARCIA live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called GARCIA represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called GARCIA in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a GARCIA by picking someone at random in New Mexico than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of GARCIA

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Spain

Language of origin: Spanish

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GARCIA surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the GARCIA surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of GARCIA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 779,412 90.81
White (Caucasian) 52,956 6.17
Asian/Pacific 12,274 1.43
Black/African American 4,206 0.49
Mixed Race 4,377 0.51
Native American/Alaskan 4,978 0.58

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the GARCIA surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of GARCIA in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of GARCIA.

Similar names to GARCIA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GARCIA.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for GARCIA

The following words are slight variants of GARCIA that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.