Garson
Garson was last recorded in 2001, when 5 babies were given it; 57 Americans have been recorded with it between 1920 and 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Garson by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Garson?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,127, in 2001; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 1992, the peak
Garson peaked in 1992, when 10 boys were given it, #5,362 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 5 | #11,127 | 2.6 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,076 | 3.1 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,322 | 2.6 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,362 | 5.0 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,024 | 3.9 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,208 | 2.3 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,864 | 2.8 |
| 1943 | 8 | #2,817 | 5.6 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,550 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Garson a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Garson has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 9 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Garson: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Garson, and how old are they?
An estimated 42 Americans named Garson and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 197 people named Garson (5 women and girls, 192 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 45 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.4 times 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 143,616 babies since 1880, Garson is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 5,969 babies recorded by SSA was a Garson (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.
More about Garson and names like it
- Compare Garson and GraysonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sGarson peaked in 1992.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Garson.
- Names starting with GMost given first.