Garrison
Garrison was given to 92 boys in 2025, #1,757 among boys’ names; 8,514 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,950 Americans named Garrison and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 14 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Garrison by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Garrison?
#1,757 among boys’ names, 2025
Garrison fell from #1,040 in 2015 to #1,757 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.10 to 0.05 per 1,000.
353 babies in 1999, the peak
Garrison peaked in 1999, when 353 boys were given it, #565 among boys’ names. The 92 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 92 | #1,757 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 92 | #1,782 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 107 | #1,625 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 135 | #1,383 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 149 | #1,274 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 139 | #1,299 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 173 | #1,128 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 149 | #1,240 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 169 | #1,131 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 170 | #1,140 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (111)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 193 | #1,040 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 206 | #999 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 210 | #952 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 201 | #990 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 151 | #1,175 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 185 | #1,045 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 210 | #958 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 187 | #1,025 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 225 | #893 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 217 | #898 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 229 | #822 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 253 | #739 | 0.13 |
| 2003 | 286 | #679 | 0.14 |
| 2002 | 283 | #661 | 0.15 |
| 2001 | 254 | #702 | 0.13 |
| 2000 | 268 | #667 | 0.14 |
| 1999 | 353 | #565 | 0.18 |
| 1998 | 268 | #652 | 0.14 |
| 1997 | 192 | #775 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 199 | #751 | 0.11 |
| 1995 | 172 | #814 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 186 | #772 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 229 | #677 | 0.12 |
| 1992 | 140 | #890 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 147 | #864 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 117 | #963 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 109 | #976 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 113 | #900 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 77 | #1,097 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 95 | #940 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 53 | #1,322 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 51 | #1,303 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 34 | #1,696 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 39 | #1,574 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 34 | #1,708 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 33 | #1,742 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 34 | #1,686 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 26 | #1,935 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 24 | #2,030 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 23 | #2,072 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 17 | #2,480 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 17 | #2,389 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 27 | #1,711 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 27 | #1,699 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 23 | #1,882 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 26 | #1,721 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 37 | #1,308 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 26 | #1,555 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 21 | #1,727 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,154 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,866 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 19 | #1,866 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 15 | #2,143 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 16 | #2,067 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 11 | #2,601 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 9 | #2,940 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 12 | #2,460 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 11 | #2,561 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 21 | #1,765 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 17 | #1,964 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 17 | #1,923 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 29 | #1,418 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 23 | #1,606 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 26 | #1,497 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 12 | #2,287 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 12 | #2,250 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,057 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 17 | #1,843 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 9 | #2,741 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,775 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,168 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 19 | #1,596 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,219 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,079 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,249 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 8 | #2,690 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,298 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,562 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 13 | #1,991 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,439 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,319 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,378 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 5 | #3,984 | under 0.01 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,663 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,660 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,560 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 9 | #2,992 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,487 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,630 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,499 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,649 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 10 | #2,871 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 10 | #2,844 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 10 | #2,752 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 12 | #2,446 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,619 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,141 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,047 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,754 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,155 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,379 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Garrison a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Garrison has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 111 years of records.
Girls and boys named Garrison: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Garrison, and how old are they?
7,950 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 8,514 Americans ever recorded as Garrison. The median Garrison alive today is 23 years old; half are between 14 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 7,072 people named Garrison (74 women and girls, 6,998 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,389 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 35 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 198 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 333 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,720 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,700 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,970 |
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 Garrison born?
The states with the most babies named Garrison are Texas, Georgia and Pennsylvania, with 52% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 12 | #1,513 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,264 | 1.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,139 | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,031 | 0.4× |
| Kentucky | 6 | #650 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 5 | #1,925 | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 5 | #992 | 0.5× |
Where Garrison is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Garrison is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1912 it was given 1.9 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 Garrison 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 9,234 babies since 1880, Garrison is the most given (92% of them). In 2025 it was given to 92 of their 102 babies (90%), 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 Garrison
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 Garrison and names like it
- Compare Garrison and GraisonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sGarrison peaked in 1999.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Garrison since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Garrison.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Garrison alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.