Gareth
Gareth is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 50 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 500.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2016104 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1916
- 4,342people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,342 boys have been named Gareth in the United States since 1916, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2016, with 104 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1992, and the 2010s alone account for 17%.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Gareth | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 12 | |
| 1920s | 156 | |
| 1930s | 186 | |
| 1940s | 291 | |
| 1950s | 213 | |
| 1960s | 240 | |
| 1970s | 341 | |
| 1980s | 577 | |
| 1990s | 705 | |
| 2000s | 658 | |
| 2010s | 720 | |
| 2020s | 243 |
In 2016, its biggest year
Gareth was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2016 were Noah, Liam, William, Mason and James. See all of 2016.
Names that rose and fell with Gareth
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Baltazarpeak 2001
- Gonzalopeak 2000
- Dimaspeak 1996
- Roquepeak 2004
- Gavinopeak 2008
- Abelardopeak 2002
- Faustopeak 2006
- Carlinpeak 1992
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.