Garris — boys' name
92 babies named Garris in U.S. Social Security records since 1945, with the highest year being 1979. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
20% of everyone ever named Garris was born in this single decade.
8 babies were named Garris in 1979 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Garris
The Social Security Administration has registered 92 babies named Garris between 1945 and 2017, spanning 73 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Garris currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1979, when 8 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Garris performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 18 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Garris shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Garris 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 92 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.
Garris at a glance
Last recorded 2017Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Garris popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–1945
- Peak year (1979)
- 8
- Annual births at peak — across 73 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2017.
92 total births across 73 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1979 with 8 births in a single year.
Garris by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 18 births that decade — 20% of Garris's all-time total
Garris decade highlights
- Peak decade 18 births
- Runner-up 17 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Garris's strongest decade
18 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 20% of all-time use.
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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, 1945–2017 (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.