Garret
Garret was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,337 among boys’ names; 13,252 Americans have been recorded with it since 1881 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,100 Americans named Garret and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 25 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Garret by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Garret mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Garret is “a male given name.”
Variant of Garrett.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Garret?
#7,337 among boys’ names, 2025
Garret fell from #2,217 in 2015 to #7,337 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 31.8 to 6.4 per million.
590 babies in 2000, the peak
Garret peaked in 2000, when 590 boys were given it, #420 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,337 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,579 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 20 | #4,938 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 29 | #3,797 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 29 | #3,759 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 27 | #3,851 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 28 | #3,830 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 45 | #2,718 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 45 | #2,728 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 43 | #2,803 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (117)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 61 | #2,217 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 62 | #2,183 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 66 | #2,049 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 109 | #1,482 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 123 | #1,366 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 131 | #1,312 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 155 | #1,169 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 164 | #1,117 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 211 | #941 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 277 | #762 | 0.13 |
| 2005 | 300 | #689 | 0.15 |
| 2004 | 301 | #674 | 0.15 |
| 2003 | 343 | #610 | 0.17 |
| 2002 | 383 | #572 | 0.20 |
| 2001 | 468 | #491 | 0.24 |
| 2000 | 590 | #420 | 0.30 |
| 1999 | 527 | #437 | 0.27 |
| 1998 | 458 | #477 | 0.24 |
| 1997 | 477 | #463 | 0.25 |
| 1996 | 455 | #479 | 0.24 |
| 1995 | 438 | #491 | 0.23 |
| 1994 | 416 | #493 | 0.22 |
| 1993 | 484 | #452 | 0.25 |
| 1992 | 498 | #442 | 0.25 |
| 1991 | 359 | #534 | 0.18 |
| 1990 | 380 | #504 | 0.19 |
| 1989 | 326 | #533 | 0.16 |
| 1988 | 254 | #578 | 0.13 |
| 1987 | 252 | #570 | 0.13 |
| 1986 | 272 | #541 | 0.15 |
| 1985 | 261 | #544 | 0.14 |
| 1984 | 191 | #618 | 0.11 |
| 1983 | 196 | #611 | 0.11 |
| 1982 | 156 | #695 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 140 | #732 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 144 | #731 | 0.08 |
| 1979 | 125 | #775 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 83 | #951 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 64 | #1,086 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 63 | #1,052 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 62 | #1,058 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 77 | #929 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 66 | #996 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 86 | #870 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 64 | #1,021 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 101 | #807 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 88 | #826 | 0.05 |
| 1968 | 89 | #786 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 95 | #757 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 97 | #752 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 95 | #760 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 101 | #761 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 104 | #756 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 91 | #797 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 64 | #959 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 60 | #988 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 33 | #1,369 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 34 | #1,324 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 29 | #1,464 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 35 | #1,305 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 40 | #1,190 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 39 | #1,206 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 30 | #1,389 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 33 | #1,303 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 31 | #1,333 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 29 | #1,347 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 31 | #1,308 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 21 | #1,624 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 28 | #1,403 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 26 | #1,392 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 15 | #1,806 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 19 | #1,595 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 29 | #1,290 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,586 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 9 | #2,545 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,651 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,337 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,719 | under 0.01 |
| 1937 | 14 | #1,940 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,511 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,438 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,457 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,611 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 16 | #1,872 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,376 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,222 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,246 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 16 | #1,999 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 17 | #1,980 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 10 | #2,790 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 6 | #3,906 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,600 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,164 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,541 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,072 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,093 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,207 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,351 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 16 | #1,880 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 15 | #1,909 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,333 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 10 | #1,853 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,674 | 0.01 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,389 | 0.03 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,145 | 0.04 |
| 1883 | 5 | #949 | 0.05 |
| 1881 | 6 | #811 | 0.06 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Garret a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Garret has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 117 years of records.
Girls and boys named Garret: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Garret, and how old are they?
12,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 13,252 Americans ever recorded as Garret. The median Garret alive today is 31 years old; half are between 25 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 12,629 people named Garret (40 women and girls, 12,589 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,265 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 50 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 603 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,230 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,850 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,920 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 475 |
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 Garret born?
The states with the most babies named Garret are California, Texas and Michigan, with 29% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,461 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 769 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 516 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 505 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 486 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 453 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Minnesota | 407 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 376 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Wisconsin | 345 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Florida | 341 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Garret is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Garret is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1910 it was given 1.6 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 Garret with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 156,409 babies since 1880, Garret is the second most given (8.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 543 babies (2.0%), again the second 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 Garret
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 Garret and names like it
- Compare Garret and GarrettBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sGarret peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Garret since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Garret.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Garret alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.