Show ContentsGándara History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Gándara Family Crest Download (JPG) Heritage Series - 600 DPI

Family Crest Download (JPG) Heritage Series - 600 DPI

Early Origins of the Gándara family

The surname Gándara was first found in Navarre, one of the medieval Christian kingdoms of northern Spain.

Early History of the Gándara family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Gándara research. Another 220 words (16 lines of text) covering the years 1516, 1523, 1528, 1580 and 1583 are included under the topic Early Gándara History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Gándara Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: De La Gardara, Gardara, Garary, Gardary, Gardarry and others.

Early Notables of the Gándara family

Juan de Garay (1528-1583), Spanish conquistador, Governor of Asunción (present day Paraguay) and founded a number of cities in Argentina, including the second foundation of Buenos Aires, in...
Another 28 words (2 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Gándara Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Gándara Ranking

In the United States, the name Gándara is the 14,320th most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 1

Gándara migration to the United States+



Gándara Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • Angel Gandara, who arrived in Puerto Rico in 1885 2

Contemporary Notables of the name Gándara (post 1700)+

  • Luisa "Piti" Gándara Menéndez (d. 2023), Puerto Rican politician and wife of former Governor of Puerto Rico Aníbal Acevedo Vilá
  1. "What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
  2. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)

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