Garren — #9081 US boys' name
1,857 babies named Garren in U.S. Social Security records since 1938, with the highest year being 2000. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 36% of names given to boys today.
27% of everyone ever named Garren was born in this single decade.
68 babies were named Garren in 2000 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Garren
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,857 babies named Garren between 1938 and 2024, spanning 87 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Garren currently holds the #9081 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 68 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Garren performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 508 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Garren shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 129 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Garren in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Garren 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 1,857 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.
Garren at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Garren popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1938
- Peak year (2000)
- 68
- Annual births at peak — across 87 years of records
Currently ranks #9081 among boys.
1,857 total births across 87 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2000 with 68 births in a single year.
Garren popularity over time — girls
17 total births recorded since 2008 (Garren as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Garren accounts for 1% of total recorded use across both genders.
Garren by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 508 births that decade — 27% of Garren's all-time total
Garren decade highlights
- Peak decade 508 births
- Runner-up 385 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Garren's strongest decade
508 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 27% of all-time use.
Garren by state
Where Garren concentrates geographically — total births since 1938
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 129 | 6.9% |
| #2 | Texas | | 80 | 4.3% |
| #3 | North Carolina | | 21 | 1.1% |
| #4 | Tennessee | | 16 | 0.9% |
| #5 | Oklahoma | | 7 | 0.4% |
| #6 | Florida | | 5 | 0.3% |
| #7 | Kentucky | | 5 | 0.3% |
| #8 | Washington | | 5 | 0.3% |
129 of 1,857 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 8 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 6.9% of nationwide
- Texas 4.3% of nationwide
- North Carolina 1.1% of nationwide
- Tennessee 0.9% of nationwide
- Oklahoma 0.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 8 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 6.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1938–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.