Garet
Garet was last recorded in 2020, when 7 babies were given it; 1,486 Americans have been recorded with it between 1941 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,410 Americans named Garet and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 23 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Garet by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Garet?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,899, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
71 babies in 1999, the peak
Garet peaked in 1999, when 71 boys were given it, #1,558 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 7 | #9,899 | 4.1 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,789 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,770 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,294 | 5.8 |
| 2014 | 7 | #9,983 | 3.6 |
| 2013 | 13 | #6,363 | 6.9 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,319 | 9.0 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,675 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 23 | #4,280 | 12.0 |
| 2009 | 31 | #3,505 | 15.6 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 41 | #2,901 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 28 | #3,723 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 51 | #2,418 | 24.8 |
| 2005 | 39 | #2,763 | 19.5 |
| 2004 | 40 | #2,655 | 20.2 |
| 2003 | 34 | #2,868 | 17.2 |
| 2002 | 53 | #2,050 | 27.3 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,091 | 25.7 |
| 2000 | 52 | #1,972 | 26.5 |
| 1999 | 71 | #1,558 | 37.0 |
| 1998 | 52 | #1,881 | 27.2 |
| 1997 | 53 | #1,795 | 28.1 |
| 1996 | 53 | #1,746 | 28.0 |
| 1995 | 51 | #1,737 | 26.8 |
| 1994 | 38 | #2,135 | 19.7 |
| 1993 | 42 | #1,944 | 21.4 |
| 1992 | 42 | #1,928 | 21.0 |
| 1991 | 28 | #2,487 | 13.9 |
| 1990 | 38 | #1,980 | 18.5 |
| 1989 | 51 | #1,569 | 25.5 |
| 1988 | 32 | #2,003 | 16.7 |
| 1987 | 28 | #2,138 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 38 | #1,671 | 20.6 |
| 1985 | 37 | #1,681 | 20.0 |
| 1984 | 29 | #1,904 | 16.1 |
| 1983 | 19 | #2,521 | 10.6 |
| 1982 | 22 | #2,292 | 12.1 |
| 1981 | 19 | #2,520 | 10.6 |
| 1980 | 24 | #2,180 | 13.5 |
| 1979 | 20 | #2,410 | 11.6 |
| 1978 | 19 | #2,406 | 11.6 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,461 | 6.7 |
| 1976 | 12 | #3,142 | 7.6 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,019 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,845 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,289 | 6.4 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,140 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,119 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 27 | #1,670 | 14.5 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,150 | 5.0 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,474 | 4.0 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,843 | 5.2 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,666 | 3.4 |
| 1965 | 10 | #2,676 | 5.4 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,391 | 3.5 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,261 | 2.5 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,776 | 2.9 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,056 | 4.9 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,278 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Garet a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Garet has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Garet: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Garet, and how old are they?
1,410 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,486 Americans ever recorded as Garet. The median Garet alive today is 30 years old; half are between 23 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 1,442 people named Garet (17 women and girls, 1,425 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,429 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 5 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 14 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 169 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 540 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 633 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 53 |
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).
Where are babies named Garet born?
The states with the most babies named Garet are California, Texas and Florida, with 91% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 106 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 37 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Tennessee | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Garet with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Garet?
Garet is a less common spelling of Garrett: SSA has recorded 1,486 Garet and 136,214 Garrett since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 156,209 babies since 1880, Garet is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 543 babies recorded by SSA was a Garet (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Garet
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 Garet and names like it
- Compare Garet and GarrettBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sGaret peaked in 1999.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Garet since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Garet.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Garet alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.