Boys' name · since 1980
Garion
Garion has 477 recorded births since 1980 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1999 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #8,133 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #12,442 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 477
- born since 1980
- 1990s
- peak decade
Garion currently ranks #12442 among boys' names in America, with 477 babies recorded since 1980.
Garion has 477 recorded births among boys since 1980, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #12442 as of the latest data, more common than 11% of boys, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1980 to 2025.
- #8,133 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- #12,442 of 13,930 2025 SSA year
- 477 born since 1980
- 1990s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Garion ranks #8,133 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #12,442 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. 477 born since 1980, peaking in the 1990s.
- #8,133 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #12,442 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 477
- born since 1980
- 1990s
- peak decade
Garion's 477 recorded births place it above 82.11% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Garion compares
477 Top 45% higher than 55% of 13,930 names currently given to boys
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked boys names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Garion's all-time total is 29% above the median boys name, and Liam still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Garion | Median boys name (Takari) | #1 boys name (Liam) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 477 | 369 | 358,536 |
| Peak-year births | 25 | 34 | 22,252 |
Garion's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Garion splits its recorded history at 2002: 45% of all births land in the more recent half, 55% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1984 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1999 peak of 25 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Garion popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1980–2025
- Peak year (1999)
- 25
- Annual births at peak, across 46 years of records
Garion by decade
1990s is the heaviest window (182 births, 38% of the file).
1990s was Garion's strongest decade.
182 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 38% of all-time use.
Garion births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s 46
1980s
46 births
- 1990s
1990s
182 births
- 2000s
2000s
157 births
- 2010s
2010s
82 births
- 2020s 10
2020s
10 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 182 births (38% of all-time use).
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- Garion's decade-level peak was the 1990s (182 total births); usage has since declined to 10 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Garion: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1999)
Similar record span (~45 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1980–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Garion draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.