Garrick
Garrick was given to 12 boys in 2025, #6,925 among boys’ names; 5,439 Americans have been recorded with it since 1927 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,960 Americans named Garrick and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 29 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Garrick by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Garrick mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Garrick is “a male given name from Old English.” Its etymology gives the sense “spear” (gār).
From Old English *Gārrīċ (from gār (“spear”) + rīċ), from Proto-Germanic *Gaizarīks. Doublet of Gaiseric.
/ˈɡæɹɪk/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Garrick?
#6,925 among boys’ names, 2025
Garrick fell from #3,260 in 2015 to #6,925 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 18.3 to 7.0 per million.
258 babies in 1989, the peak
Garrick peaked in 1989, when 258 boys were given it, #613 among boys’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #6,925 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 14 | #6,284 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,190 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 15 | #5,957 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 17 | #5,406 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 24 | #4,181 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 25 | #4,149 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 34 | #3,319 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 30 | #3,612 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 37 | #3,128 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 35 | #3,260 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 39 | #2,948 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 24 | #4,098 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 42 | #2,835 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 42 | #2,818 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 42 | #2,839 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 45 | #2,717 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 53 | #2,412 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 43 | #2,773 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 70 | #1,924 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 49 | #2,380 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,028 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 75 | #1,655 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 72 | #1,648 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 70 | #1,659 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 79 | #1,519 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 84 | #1,396 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 76 | #1,464 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 79 | #1,386 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 72 | #1,435 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 94 | #1,190 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 89 | #1,219 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 122 | #978 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 133 | #917 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 170 | #786 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 251 | #637 | 0.12 |
| 1989 | 258 | #613 | 0.13 |
| 1988 | 85 | #1,077 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 82 | #1,056 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 95 | #939 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 110 | #861 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 85 | #963 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 108 | #839 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 112 | #839 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 103 | #877 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 103 | #886 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 85 | #962 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 94 | #886 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 90 | #896 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 107 | #804 | 0.07 |
| 1975 | 112 | #784 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 137 | #702 | 0.09 |
| 1973 | 233 | #511 | 0.15 |
| 1972 | 201 | #565 | 0.12 |
| 1971 | 100 | #807 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 89 | #855 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 70 | #914 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 59 | #950 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 69 | #864 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 47 | #1,080 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 51 | #1,037 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 41 | #1,204 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 37 | #1,287 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 34 | #1,351 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 32 | #1,415 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 18 | #1,932 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 33 | #1,370 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 29 | #1,459 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 24 | #1,647 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 43 | #1,159 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 35 | #1,279 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 35 | #1,281 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 29 | #1,414 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 20 | #1,719 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,084 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 23 | #1,557 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 12 | #2,264 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 17 | #1,841 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,020 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 10 | #2,459 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,167 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,242 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,349 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,415 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Garrick a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Garrick has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 84 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Garrick: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Garrick, and how old are they?
4,960 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 5,439 Americans ever recorded as Garrick. The median Garrick alive today is 38 years old; half are between 29 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 4,385 people named Garrick (10 women and girls, 4,375 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,009 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 10 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 345 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,460 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,870 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 962 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 312 |
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 Garrick born?
The states with the most babies named Garrick are California, Texas and Illinois, with 44% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 538 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 252 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 209 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 141 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 121 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 114 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 99 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 94 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 77 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 63 | not ranked | 0.4× |
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 Garrick 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 5,529 babies since 1880, Garrick is the most given (98% of them).
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 Garrick
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 Garrick and names like it
- Compare Garrick and GarikBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sGarrick peaked in 1989.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Garrick since 1910.
- Old English namesWiktionary’s origin for Garrick: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Garrick.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Garrick alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with GMost given first.