girls:
36 births since 1953
#5680 (1st percentile)
boys:
423 births since 1913
#4163 (9th percentile)
overall:
459 births since 1913
#7280 (6th percentile)
The name Garcia is the #7,280 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 459 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 5.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,163 (9.2% percentile) for all time with 423 births since 1913. For girls, it ranks #5,680 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 36 births since 1953.
Garcia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for boys and 1953 for girls). Birth data for Garcia is available in 59 out of the 103 years between 1913 and 2015 (57 years for boys and 6 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Garcia has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 92.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Garcia reached its peak popularity in 1958, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #656) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 10 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2015.
For girls, Garcia reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #811) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1988.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Garcia".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Garcia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 70.5% confident that Garcia is pronounced as gahr-SEE-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is GAHR-see-uh, at 20.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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