Garth
Garth was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,179 among boys’ names; 9,666 Americans have been recorded with it since 1906 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,300 Americans named Garth and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (65% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 41 and 66.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Garth by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Garth mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Garth is “a male given name from Welsh, shortened form of Gareth”
Welsh garth probably has its influence on Welsh place names.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Garth?
#9,179 among boys’ names, 2025
Garth fell from #4,772 in 2015 to #9,179 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 10.4 to 4.7 per million.
268 babies in 1954, the peak
Garth peaked in 1954, when 268 boys were given it, #443 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,179 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 18 | #5,299 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 22 | #4,643 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 21 | #4,757 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,259 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 20 | #4,753 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,644 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,861 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 15 | #5,888 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,462 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (117)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #4,772 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 16 | #5,553 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,742 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 8 | #9,138 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 7 | #9,977 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 16 | #5,568 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,265 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 19 | #4,953 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,394 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,227 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,668 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,085 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 15 | #5,116 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 17 | #4,565 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 30 | #3,008 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 22 | #3,674 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 37 | #2,413 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 50 | #1,938 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 46 | #1,971 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 50 | #1,822 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 56 | #1,627 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 62 | #1,518 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 124 | #966 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 249 | #656 | 0.12 |
| 1991 | 200 | #713 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 82 | #1,204 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 54 | #1,518 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 54 | #1,430 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 59 | #1,273 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 61 | #1,232 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 61 | #1,221 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 74 | #1,035 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 72 | #1,042 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 98 | #903 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 133 | #757 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 108 | #854 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 124 | #778 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 118 | #775 | 0.07 |
| 1977 | 106 | #828 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 110 | #792 | 0.07 |
| 1975 | 137 | #710 | 0.09 |
| 1974 | 157 | #644 | 0.10 |
| 1973 | 150 | #650 | 0.10 |
| 1972 | 151 | #652 | 0.09 |
| 1971 | 147 | #683 | 0.08 |
| 1970 | 190 | #589 | 0.10 |
| 1969 | 192 | #566 | 0.11 |
| 1968 | 133 | #655 | 0.08 |
| 1967 | 157 | #598 | 0.09 |
| 1966 | 170 | #581 | 0.10 |
| 1965 | 159 | #606 | 0.09 |
| 1964 | 239 | #507 | 0.12 |
| 1963 | 209 | #551 | 0.10 |
| 1962 | 184 | #578 | 0.09 |
| 1961 | 211 | #544 | 0.10 |
| 1960 | 199 | #559 | 0.09 |
| 1959 | 186 | #572 | 0.09 |
| 1958 | 156 | #615 | 0.07 |
| 1957 | 146 | #636 | 0.07 |
| 1956 | 175 | #576 | 0.08 |
| 1955 | 200 | #515 | 0.10 |
| 1954 | 268 | #443 | 0.13 |
| 1953 | 158 | #566 | 0.08 |
| 1952 | 106 | #673 | 0.05 |
| 1951 | 109 | #669 | 0.06 |
| 1950 | 99 | #687 | 0.06 |
| 1949 | 98 | #688 | 0.06 |
| 1948 | 80 | #756 | 0.05 |
| 1947 | 100 | #693 | 0.05 |
| 1946 | 80 | #732 | 0.05 |
| 1945 | 63 | #778 | 0.05 |
| 1944 | 83 | #682 | 0.06 |
| 1943 | 86 | #694 | 0.06 |
| 1942 | 101 | #631 | 0.07 |
| 1941 | 73 | #725 | 0.06 |
| 1940 | 86 | #648 | 0.07 |
| 1939 | 60 | #789 | 0.05 |
| 1938 | 82 | #662 | 0.07 |
| 1937 | 83 | #651 | 0.08 |
| 1936 | 59 | #802 | 0.06 |
| 1935 | 71 | #727 | 0.07 |
| 1934 | 73 | #718 | 0.07 |
| 1933 | 72 | #714 | 0.07 |
| 1932 | 69 | #759 | 0.07 |
| 1931 | 53 | #880 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 54 | #912 | 0.05 |
| 1929 | 73 | #738 | 0.07 |
| 1928 | 68 | #789 | 0.06 |
| 1927 | 80 | #727 | 0.07 |
| 1926 | 75 | #741 | 0.07 |
| 1925 | 68 | #805 | 0.06 |
| 1924 | 78 | #754 | 0.07 |
| 1923 | 100 | #640 | 0.09 |
| 1922 | 66 | #844 | 0.06 |
| 1921 | 77 | #763 | 0.07 |
| 1920 | 80 | #725 | 0.08 |
| 1919 | 80 | #697 | 0.08 |
| 1918 | 59 | #862 | 0.06 |
| 1917 | 77 | #689 | 0.08 |
| 1916 | 53 | #865 | 0.06 |
| 1915 | 68 | #717 | 0.08 |
| 1914 | 22 | #1,283 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 24 | #1,034 | 0.05 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,380 | 0.01 |
| 1911 | 6 | #1,609 | 0.03 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,542 | 0.03 |
| 1906 | 5 | #1,306 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Garth a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Garth has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 117 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Garth: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Garth, and how old are they?
6,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 65% of the 9,666 Americans ever recorded as Garth. The median Garth alive today is 56 years old; half are between 41 and 66.
The 2020 Census counted 7,806 people named Garth (21 women and girls, 7,785 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,775 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 268 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,060 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,030 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,420 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 313 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 205 |
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 Garth born?
The states with the most babies named Garth are California, Utah and New York, with 43% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Utah is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,034 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Utah | 637 | not ranked | 8.1× |
| New York | 592 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 571 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 383 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 318 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Washington | 256 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Idaho | 238 | not ranked | 5.4× |
| Texas | 177 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Oregon | 175 | not ranked | 1.9× |
Where Garth is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Garth is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 8.1 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 Garth 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 14,491 babies since 1880, Garth is the most given (67% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 54 babies (15%), the second most given that year.
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 Garth
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 Garth and names like it
- Compare Garth and GarethBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sGarth peaked in 1954.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Garth since 1910.
- The top names of 1954The year the most babies were named Garth.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Garth alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.