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Garcia

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Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Garcia has been given to 459 babies in the U.S. since 1913. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1958, with 14 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 92% boys, 8% girls all-time.

Babies named Garcia, 2015

1 in 740,000

Garcia over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Garcia over time

In 2015, Garcia went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19132015

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Garcia: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Garcia means

Garcia is a given name.

The naming story behind Garcia

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Garcia in its glossary. The entry labels it masculine and points to printed page(s) 369.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Span. Teu. spear”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Garcia, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 423 boys were recorded with the name Garcia between 1913 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1958; its best national rank was #2,208 in 1958.

In the United States, 36 girls were recorded with the name Garcia between 1953 and 1988. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1986; its best national rank was #5,251 in 1953.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Garcia?

Garcia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 740,000
5 of 3,701,574 births
Among boys only
1 in 383,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,148 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Garcia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2015 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Garcia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Garcias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Garcia was born before 1969 — so the typical Garcia is around 56 today.

Median birth year
1969
About 56 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
21.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
371
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1950s — 21.5% of all recorded uses (91).

Is Garcia rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1958 (14)
Years since peak
67
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,208
1958

Spellings of Garcia

Garcia is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 39.0% against Garcia's 3.9%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Garcia is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Garcia was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,456,184 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Garcia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Garcia around the world

Where Garcia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1930–2014
    #5,746
    in 2014
  • South Australia
    2009–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Garcia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,208
1958
Peak year
1958
14 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
423
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,251
1953
Peak year
1986
8 that year
First recorded
1953
Last recorded
1988
All-time count
36
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Garcia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Garcia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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