Given name & surname
García
“young”
García is a masculine given name, possibly from Basque. It is used in Spanish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
García possibly goes back to a word meaning “young.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
García’s family of names
In Spanish usage, García has a later derivative in Garcia. In Spanish usage, García as a surname has a related form in Gaciot. In Spanish usage, García as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form Garcia.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
García has relatives in 14 languages. Lines run from its Basque roots to each of them.
23 related names in 14 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 21
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Gassíasvariant · Spanish
- Garzeavariant · Spanish
- Gartziavariant · Spanish
- Gartzesvariant · Spanish
- Gartzeavariant · Spanish
- Garsésvariant · Spanish
- Garseavariant · Spanish
- Garcellervariant · Spanish
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- Gaciotvariant · Spanish
- Gacióvariant · Spanish
- Gacíasvariant · Spanish
- Garcésvariant · Spanish
- Gassíavariant · Spanish
- Gasíavariant · Spanish
- Garzónvariant · Spanish
- Garziavariant · Spanish, Italian
- Garcíasvariant · Spanish
- Garcivariant · Spanish
- Gárcezvariant · Spanish
- Garceavariant · Spanish
- Gacíavariant · Spanish
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named García
- García I of LeónKing of Leon (871-914)870–914
- García Ramírez of NavarreKing of Navarre1110–1150
- García Sánchez I of PamplonaKing of Pamplona from 925 to 970919–970
- García Sánchez II of PamplonaKing of Pamplona and Count of Aragon from 994 to c.1000960–1000
- García Sánchez III of PamplonaKing of Pamplona from 1034 to 10541012–1054
- García II of GaliciaKing of Galicia1042–1090
- García ÍñiguezKing of Pamplona from 851/2 to 870810–881
- García Fernández of CastileCount of Castile (938-995)
- García Sánchez of CastileCastillian noble1008–1029
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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