Garrett
Garrett was given to 526 boys in 2025, #564 among boys’ names; 136,214 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 128,000 Americans named Garrett and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 22 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Garrett by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Garrett mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Garrett is “a male given name from the Germanic languages, transferred from an English and an Irish surname, or in Ireland directly from Gerard.”
A medieval English and Irish form of the Germanic given names Gerard and Gerald. Of Old High German origin.
/ˈɡæɹɪt/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Garrett?
#564 among boys’ names, 2025
Garrett fell from #269 in 2015 to #564 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.71 to 0.31 per 1,000.
5,850 babies in 2000, the peak
Garrett peaked in 2000, when 5,850 babies were given it (5,840 boys, #74 among boys’ names). The 526 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 526 | #564 | 0.31 |
| 2024 | 530 | #560 | 0.31 |
| 2023 | 630 | #480 | 0.37 |
| 2022 | 665 | #461 | 0.38 |
| 2021 | 775 | #401 | 0.44 |
| 2020 | 857 | #364 | 0.50 |
| 2019 | 973 | #345 | 0.54 |
| 2018 | 1,022 | #327 | 0.56 |
| 2017 | 1,062 | #322 | 0.57 |
| 2016 | 1,149 | #309 | 0.61 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,352 | #269 | 0.71 |
| 2014 | 1,563 | #237 | 0.81 |
| 2013 | 1,616 | #228 | 0.85 |
| 2012 | 1,745 | #213 | 0.92 |
| 2011 | 1,942 | #191 | 1.0 |
| 2010 | 1,959 | #188 | 1.0 |
| 2009 | 2,061 | #184 | 1.0 |
| 2008 | 2,448 | #161 | 1.2 |
| 2007 | 2,562 | #162 | 1.2 |
| 2006 | 2,965 | #139 | 1.4 |
| 2005 | 3,262 | #124 | 1.6 |
| 2004 | 3,688 | #114 | 1.9 |
| 2003 | 3,981 | #106 | 2.0 |
| 2002 | 4,357 | #91 | 2.2 |
| 2001 | 5,061 | #80 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 5,840 | #74 | 3.0 |
| 1999 | 5,075 | #78 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 4,789 | #80 | 2.5 |
| 1997 | 4,545 | #85 | 2.4 |
| 1996 | 4,653 | #85 | 2.5 |
| 1995 | 4,710 | #80 | 2.5 |
| 1994 | 4,762 | #82 | 2.5 |
| 1993 | 4,711 | #79 | 2.4 |
| 1992 | 4,270 | #88 | 2.1 |
| 1991 | 4,054 | #91 | 2.0 |
| 1990 | 3,757 | #99 | 1.8 |
| 1989 | 3,314 | #102 | 1.7 |
| 1988 | 2,650 | #118 | 1.4 |
| 1987 | 2,583 | #113 | 1.4 |
| 1986 | 2,390 | #117 | 1.3 |
| 1985 | 2,054 | #138 | 1.1 |
| 1984 | 1,731 | #156 | 1.0 |
| 1983 | 1,516 | #173 | 0.85 |
| 1982 | 1,453 | #180 | 0.80 |
| 1981 | 1,497 | #167 | 0.84 |
| 1980 | 1,288 | #189 | 0.72 |
| 1979 | 1,205 | #201 | 0.70 |
| 1978 | 806 | #251 | 0.49 |
| 1977 | 721 | #271 | 0.44 |
| 1976 | 560 | #314 | 0.36 |
| 1975 | 565 | #316 | 0.36 |
| 1974 | 528 | #331 | 0.34 |
| 1973 | 490 | #347 | 0.31 |
| 1972 | 542 | #329 | 0.33 |
| 1971 | 602 | #313 | 0.34 |
| 1970 | 600 | #320 | 0.32 |
| 1969 | 487 | #358 | 0.27 |
| 1968 | 384 | #399 | 0.22 |
| 1967 | 336 | #416 | 0.19 |
| 1966 | 316 | #429 | 0.18 |
| 1965 | 287 | #458 | 0.15 |
| 1964 | 310 | #453 | 0.16 |
| 1963 | 318 | #445 | 0.16 |
| 1962 | 249 | #504 | 0.12 |
| 1961 | 218 | #539 | 0.10 |
| 1960 | 182 | #577 | 0.09 |
| 1959 | 195 | #554 | 0.09 |
| 1958 | 180 | #576 | 0.08 |
| 1957 | 200 | #545 | 0.09 |
| 1956 | 172 | #579 | 0.08 |
| 1955 | 174 | #558 | 0.08 |
| 1954 | 169 | #562 | 0.08 |
| 1953 | 166 | #548 | 0.08 |
| 1952 | 169 | #540 | 0.09 |
| 1951 | 184 | #498 | 0.10 |
| 1950 | 164 | #521 | 0.09 |
| 1949 | 168 | #515 | 0.09 |
| 1948 | 167 | #508 | 0.10 |
| 1947 | 152 | #546 | 0.08 |
| 1946 | 155 | #518 | 0.10 |
| 1945 | 119 | #549 | 0.09 |
| 1944 | 110 | #586 | 0.08 |
| 1943 | 143 | #525 | 0.10 |
| 1942 | 103 | #620 | 0.07 |
| 1941 | 98 | #604 | 0.08 |
| 1940 | 109 | #569 | 0.09 |
| 1939 | 99 | #577 | 0.09 |
| 1938 | 75 | #705 | 0.07 |
| 1937 | 75 | #691 | 0.07 |
| 1936 | 69 | #720 | 0.07 |
| 1935 | 79 | #672 | 0.08 |
| 1934 | 74 | #712 | 0.07 |
| 1933 | 58 | #816 | 0.06 |
| 1932 | 73 | #731 | 0.07 |
| 1931 | 72 | #724 | 0.07 |
| 1930 | 52 | #931 | 0.05 |
| 1929 | 77 | #708 | 0.07 |
| 1928 | 62 | #837 | 0.06 |
| 1927 | 79 | #739 | 0.07 |
| 1926 | 83 | #696 | 0.07 |
| 1925 | 73 | #773 | 0.07 |
| 1924 | 75 | #780 | 0.07 |
| 1923 | 82 | #721 | 0.07 |
| 1922 | 93 | #669 | 0.09 |
| 1921 | 79 | #746 | 0.07 |
| 1920 | 83 | #717 | 0.08 |
| 1919 | 84 | #679 | 0.09 |
| 1918 | 81 | #704 | 0.08 |
| 1917 | 67 | #768 | 0.07 |
| 1916 | 62 | #784 | 0.07 |
| 1915 | 75 | #673 | 0.09 |
| 1914 | 61 | #647 | 0.09 |
| 1913 | 32 | #863 | 0.06 |
| 1912 | 42 | #654 | 0.10 |
| 1911 | 23 | #658 | 0.10 |
| 1910 | 17 | #740 | 0.09 |
| 1909 | 10 | #975 | 0.06 |
| 1908 | 28 | #468 | 0.18 |
| 1907 | 21 | #522 | 0.14 |
| 1906 | 21 | #494 | 0.16 |
| 1905 | 12 | #719 | 0.09 |
| 1904 | 13 | #660 | 0.10 |
| 1903 | 15 | #585 | 0.13 |
| 1902 | 12 | #664 | 0.10 |
| 1901 | 11 | #654 | 0.10 |
| 1900 | 29 | #421 | 0.19 |
| 1899 | 16 | #489 | 0.15 |
| 1898 | 23 | #409 | 0.19 |
| 1897 | 35 | #312 | 0.31 |
| 1896 | 47 | #262 | 0.39 |
| 1895 | 19 | #462 | 0.16 |
| 1894 | 11 | #646 | 0.10 |
| 1893 | 15 | #486 | 0.13 |
| 1892 | 17 | #486 | 0.14 |
| 1891 | 12 | #535 | 0.12 |
| 1890 | 15 | #497 | 0.14 |
| 1889 | 16 | #472 | 0.14 |
| 1888 | 10 | #668 | 0.08 |
| 1887 | 14 | #468 | 0.14 |
| 1886 | 16 | #459 | 0.14 |
| 1885 | 9 | #665 | 0.08 |
| 1884 | 15 | #495 | 0.13 |
| 1883 | 13 | #502 | 0.12 |
| 1882 | 15 | #477 | 0.13 |
| 1881 | 7 | #738 | 0.07 |
| 1880 | 13 | #510 | 0.12 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Garrett a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Garrett has been given almost only to boys: 452 girls in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Garrett: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Garrett, and how old are they?
128,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 136,214 Americans ever recorded as Garrett. The median Garrett alive today is 29 years old; half are between 22 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 116,551 people named Garrett (320 women and girls, 116,231 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 125,820 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 349 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,500 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 8,760 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 48,100 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 55,300 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 12,600 |
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 Garrett born?
The states with the most babies named Garrett are Texas, Ohio and Florida, with 22% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 50 | #618 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 32 | #354 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 28 | #606 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 26 | #404 | 0.9× |
| California | 25 | #918 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 25 | #436 | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 23 | #356 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 21 | #487 | 1.0× |
| New York | 19 | #751 | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 19 | #417 | 1.0× |
Where Garrett is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Garrett is most over-represented in Wyoming: 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 Garrett 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, Garrett is the most given (87% of them). In 2025 it was given to 526 of their 543 babies (97%), again the 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 Garrett
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 Garrett and names like it
- Compare Garrett and GarretBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sGarrett peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Garrett since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Garrett.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Garrett alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.