Garett
Garett was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,114 among boys’ names; 4,941 Americans have been recorded with it since 1952 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,710 Americans named Garett and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 24 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Garett by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Garett?
#11,114 among boys’ names, 2025
Garett fell from #3,916 in 2015 to #11,114 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.1 to 3.5 per million.
216 babies in 2000, the peak
Garett peaked in 2000, when 216 boys were given it, #768 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,114 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 12 | #7,038 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 10 | #7,950 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,837 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 14 | #6,072 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 18 | #5,219 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,860 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 29 | #3,701 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 23 | #4,370 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 27 | #3,916 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 31 | #3,484 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 34 | #3,213 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 34 | #3,253 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 40 | #2,919 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 60 | #2,192 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 63 | #2,147 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 79 | #1,845 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 90 | #1,686 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 113 | #1,404 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 136 | #1,173 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 148 | #1,075 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 129 | #1,161 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 160 | #984 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 184 | #870 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 216 | #768 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 178 | #851 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 166 | #874 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 175 | #828 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 164 | #847 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 149 | #896 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 127 | #979 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 140 | #908 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 131 | #929 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 144 | #874 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 127 | #909 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 102 | #1,015 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 97 | #984 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 102 | #936 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 89 | #972 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 110 | #860 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 96 | #893 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 84 | #966 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 94 | #923 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 97 | #908 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 90 | #948 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 84 | #968 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 75 | #999 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 55 | #1,191 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 59 | #1,103 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 56 | #1,130 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 53 | #1,127 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 47 | #1,208 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 43 | #1,270 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 44 | #1,261 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 56 | #1,097 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 36 | #1,333 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 27 | #1,521 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 42 | #1,154 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 29 | #1,433 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 30 | #1,414 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 16 | #2,063 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 14 | #2,240 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,141 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,468 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,149 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #4,009 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 5 | #3,931 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Garett a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Garett has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 67 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Garett: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Garett, and how old are they?
4,710 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 4,941 Americans ever recorded as Garett. The median Garett alive today is 31 years old; half are between 24 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 4,501 people named Garett (22 women and girls, 4,479 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,725 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 45 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 737 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,760 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,930 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 229 |
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 Garett born?
The states with the most babies named Garett are California, Texas and Michigan, with 43% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 588 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 238 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 156 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 138 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 128 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 123 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 122 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Wisconsin | 106 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 97 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Minnesota | 76 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Garett is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Garett is most over-represented in Wisconsin: since 1952 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Garett 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 Garett?
Garett is a less common spelling of Garrett: SSA has recorded 4,941 Garett and 136,214 Garrett since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 156,409 babies since 1880, Garett is the third most given (3.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 543 babies (1.1%), again the third most given.
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 Garett
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 Garett and names like it
- Compare Garett and GarrettBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sGarett peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Garett since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Garett.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Garett alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.