Gareth — #2635 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Gareth

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,342 babies named Gareth between 1916 and 2024, spanning 109 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Gareth currently holds the #2635 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 104 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Gareth performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 720 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Gareth shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 375 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Gareth in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Gareth in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 4,342 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.