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Garcia or García is a Basque origin surname common throughout Spain, Portugal, parts of France, the Americas, and the Philippines. It is attested since the high Middle Ages north and south of the Pyrenees (Basque Culture Territories), with the surname (sometimes first name too) thriving especially on the Kingdom of Navarre and spreading out to Castile and other Spanish regions. Ramón Menéndez Pidal and Antonio Tovar believed it to derive from the Basque word ''(H)artz'', meaning "(the) Bear".〔''(Gartzia (Garzia, García) euskal deitura dela eta )'', language question presented to the Academy of the Basque Language answered by Xabier Kintana.〕 Alfonso Irigoyen suggests it may come from a Basque adjective ''garze(a)'' meaning "young", whose modern form is ''gaztea'' or ''gaztia''.〔〔For the lost ''r'', compare the attested historic alternations ''bost''~''bortz'' 'five', ''oste''~''ortze'' 'sky', etc.〕 A third etymology suggests it may derive from the Basque words "''Gazte Hartz''", meaning "(the) young bear". Variant forms of the name include ''Garcicea, Gartzi, Gartzia, Gartze, Garsea, ''and ''Gastea''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Nombres ) Article in Spanish〕 There are Gasconic cognates of Garcia like ''Gassie'' and ''Gassion''〔Albert Dauzat, ''Dictionnaire étymologique des noms et prénoms de France'', réédition Larousse 1980, p. 280b〕 (Béarn, ''Gassio'' 14th century,〔DAUZAT 280b〕 real name of Edith Piaf, born Edith Gassion). It is a surname of patronymic origin; ''García'' was a very common first name in early medieval Spain. ''García'' is the most common surname in Spain (where 3.32% of population is named ''García'') and also the second most common surname in Cuba. It has become common in the United States due to substantial Latin American immigration, and is now the 8th most common surname in the U.S. In the 1990 United States Census, ''Garcia'' was the 18th most reported surname, accounting for 0.25% of the population.〔United States Census Bureau (9 May 1995). s:1990 Census Name Files dist.all.last (1-100). Retrieved on 2008-07-04.〕 Quite rare before the 1st World War in France, except in the French Pays Basque,〔(Garcia in France before WWI )〕 ''Garcia'' is now the 14th most common surname in France (the 8th one for the number of birth between 1966 and 1990), due to an important Spanish immigration.〔(Garcia : births (''naiss.'') in France from 1966 to 1990 )〕〔(List of the most common surnames in France )〕 It ranked second in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur after the number of births 1966–1990.〔()〕 ''García'' is also the third most common surname amongst Spanish in the United Kingdom. == People == (詳細はウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「García (surname)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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