Garay

Garay is the 2,491st most common surname in the United States, shared by 14,136 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 21,100.

By the numbers

People: 14,136
Rank: 2,491st
How common: 1 in 21,100
Per 100,000: 4.7

Where the name comes from

From Spanish, from Basque Garai.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Garay described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 90.0%
White, not Hispanic 7.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Garay

Ezequiel Garay (born 1986)Argentine association football player
Fernanda Garay (born 1986)Brazilian volleyball player
János Garay (1889–1945)Hungarian fencer
Nicholas II Garay (1367–1433)Palatine of the Kingdom of Hungary, Ban of Macsó, Usora, Só, Slavonia, Croatia and Dalmatia.
Leslie A. Garay (1924–2016)Hungarian-born U.S. botanist
János Garay (1812–1853)Hungarian poet
Nicholas I Garay (1325–1386)Palatine of the Kingdom of Hungary, Ban of Macsó, Ban of Croatia and Dalmatia
Cristián Garay (born 1989)Chilean association football referee

People named Garay with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Garay

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.