Gari — unisex name

What the Data Says About Gari

The Social Security Administration has registered 485 babies named Gari between 1938 and 2007, spanning 70 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Gari currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2007. The name reached its historical peak in 1967, when 24 babies received it in a single year. Gari is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 158 additional births since 1938.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Gari performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 157 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Gari shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Gari in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Gari 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 485 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.