Garrie
Garrie was last recorded in 1990, when 7 babies were given it; 416 Americans have been recorded with it between 1918 and 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Garrie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Garrie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #6,663, in 1990; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
33 babies in 1952, the peak
Garrie peaked in 1952, when 33 babies were given it (27 boys, #1,470 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | under 5 | 7 | #6,663 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 5 | #8,327 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 5 | #6,690 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 6 | #5,773 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 5 | #6,189 | |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,532 | 5 | #5,760 |
| 1974 | under 5 | 5 | #5,485 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 6 | #4,708 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 6 | #4,420 | |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,122 | 5 | #4,173 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | under 5 | 7 | #3,395 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 5 | #4,265 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 5 | #4,264 | |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,895 | 9 | #2,970 |
| 1960 | under 5 | 5 | #4,244 | |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,573 | 7 | #3,393 |
| 1958 | under 5 | 11 | #2,560 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 9 | #2,893 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 6 | #3,677 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 5 | #4,058 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 19 | #1,784 | |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,964 | 11 | #2,437 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,114 | 27 | #1,470 |
| 1951 | under 5 | 9 | #2,736 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 11 | #2,365 | |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,514 | 11 | #2,384 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,326 | 17 | #1,842 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,814 | 11 | #2,417 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,619 | 10 | #2,460 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,788 | 17 | #1,648 |
| 1944 | under 5 | 13 | #2,025 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 7 | #3,060 | |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,290 | 7 | #3,034 |
| 1940 | under 5 | 9 | #2,550 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 8 | #2,689 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 5 | #3,724 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 8 | #2,719 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 6 | #3,428 | |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,280 | under 5 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 7 | #3,598 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 5 | #4,412 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Garrie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 416 Americans recorded as Garrie, 18% are girls and 82% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Garrie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Garrie, and how old are they?
An estimated 249 Americans named Garrie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (60% of everyone recorded); the median is 72 years old and half are between 62 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 401 people named Garrie (113 women and girls, 288 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 289 born in the U.S. The Census count is 39% 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 Garrie?
Garrie is a less common spelling of Gary: SSA has recorded 416 Garrie and 905,438 Gary since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 953,703 babies since 1880, Garrie is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 216 babies recorded by SSA was a Garrie (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 Garrie
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 Garrie and names like it
- Compare Garrie and GaryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sGarrie peaked in 1952.
- The top names of 1952The year the most babies were named Garrie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Garrie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.