Garen
Garen was given to 18 boys in 2025, #5,277 among boys’ names; 1,220 Americans have been recorded with it since 1941 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,120 Americans named Garen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 14 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Garen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Garen?
#5,277 among boys’ names, 2025
Garen fell from #3,811 in 2015 to #5,277 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.6 to 10.5 per million.
30 babies in 2014, the peak
Garen peaked in 2014, when 30 boys were given it, #3,557 among boys’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 60% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #5,277 | 10.5 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,945 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 18 | #5,313 | 10.5 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,250 | 8.0 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,860 | 8.6 |
| 2020 | 18 | #5,095 | 10.4 |
| 2019 | 30 | #3,658 | 16.7 |
| 2018 | 23 | #4,400 | 12.7 |
| 2017 | 29 | #3,700 | 15.7 |
| 2016 | 26 | #4,029 | 13.7 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #3,811 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 30 | #3,557 | 15.6 |
| 2013 | 14 | #6,015 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 25 | #4,043 | 13.2 |
| 2011 | 17 | #5,277 | 9.0 |
| 2010 | 23 | #4,279 | 12.0 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,640 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 18 | #5,129 | 8.8 |
| 2007 | 22 | #4,411 | 10.6 |
| 2006 | 28 | #3,631 | 13.6 |
| 2005 | 21 | #4,240 | 10.5 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,653 | 9.1 |
| 2003 | 19 | #4,326 | 9.6 |
| 2002 | 23 | #3,704 | 11.8 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,548 | 8.7 |
| 2000 | 20 | #3,964 | 10.2 |
| 1999 | 18 | #4,044 | 9.4 |
| 1998 | 19 | #3,746 | 9.9 |
| 1997 | 20 | #3,497 | 10.6 |
| 1996 | 15 | #4,247 | 7.9 |
| 1995 | 18 | #3,594 | 9.5 |
| 1994 | 18 | #3,642 | 9.3 |
| 1993 | 26 | #2,733 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,180 | 7.0 |
| 1991 | 26 | #2,624 | 12.9 |
| 1990 | 22 | #2,890 | 10.7 |
| 1989 | 20 | #3,012 | 10.0 |
| 1988 | 25 | #2,390 | 13.1 |
| 1987 | 23 | #2,414 | 12.3 |
| 1986 | 18 | #2,819 | 9.8 |
| 1985 | 18 | #2,748 | 9.7 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,340 | 7.2 |
| 1983 | 17 | #2,706 | 9.5 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,362 | 7.2 |
| 1981 | 18 | #2,609 | 10.0 |
| 1980 | 15 | #3,000 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 17 | #2,699 | 9.9 |
| 1978 | 9 | #3,961 | 5.5 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,766 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,140 | 5.1 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,018 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 8 | #3,957 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,815 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,623 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,222 | 5.7 |
| 1970 | 10 | #3,145 | 5.4 |
| 1969 | 12 | #2,595 | 6.7 |
| 1968 | 10 | #2,805 | 5.8 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,363 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 11 | #2,526 | 6.2 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,666 | 3.2 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,119 | 4.0 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,429 | 3.4 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,419 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 11 | #2,598 | 5.2 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,238 | 2.3 |
| 1959 | 9 | #2,902 | 4.2 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,148 | 2.4 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,186 | 2.3 |
| 1955 | 10 | #2,647 | 4.9 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,578 | 2.9 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,557 | 3.0 |
| 1952 | 10 | #2,582 | 5.1 |
| 1951 | 11 | #2,418 | 5.8 |
| 1950 | 9 | #2,645 | 5.0 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,465 | 3.4 |
| 1948 | 11 | #2,372 | 6.3 |
| 1947 | 10 | #2,553 | 5.5 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,700 | 3.1 |
| 1944 | 10 | #2,361 | 7.3 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,277 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Garen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Garen has been given almost only to boys: 12 girls in 81 years of records.
Girls and boys named Garen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Garen, and how old are they?
1,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 1,220 Americans ever recorded as Garen. The median Garen alive today is 28 years old; half are between 14 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 1,298 people named Garen (90 women and girls, 1,208 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,059 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 6 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 95 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 133 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 296 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 319 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 271 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,258 babies since 1880, Garen is the second most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 37 babies (49%), the most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Garen
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Garen and names like it
- Compare Garen and GarrenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sGaren peaked in 2014.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Garen since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Garen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Garen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.