Garison
Garison was last recorded in 2019, when 6 babies were given it; 130 Americans have been recorded with it between 1993 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Garison by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Garison?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,221, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 2001, the peak
Garison peaked in 2001, when 10 boys were given it, #6,610 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 6 | #11,221 | 3.3 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,751 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 6 | #11,452 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,262 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,778 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,091 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,443 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,404 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 10 | #6,886 | 5.1 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,227 | 4.6 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 10 | #6,610 | 5.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,459 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,839 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,255 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,700 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,135 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,221 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 6 | #7,972 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Garison a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Garison has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 18 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Garison: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Garison, and how old are they?
An estimated 127 Americans named Garison and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 19 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 191 people named Garison (2 women and girls, 189 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 128 born in the U.S. The Census count is 49% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Garison?
Garison is a less common spelling of Garrison: SSA has recorded 130 Garison and 8,514 Garrison since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 9,614 babies since 1880, Garison is the fourth most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 102 babies recorded by SSA was a Garison (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 Garison
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 Garison and names like it
- Compare Garison and GarrisonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sGarison peaked in 2001.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Garison.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Garison alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.