Garland
Garland is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 16 births. Its best rank was 251st, in 1899, 1905.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 160.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1922478 births
- Best rank
- #251first in 1899
- Since 1880
- 24,699people given the name
The story in the numbers
23,844 boys have been named Garland in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 478 births.
The name has all but left use: 16 births in 2024, against 478 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1941, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 105 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 855 girls have also been given it, 3.5% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Garland | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 133 | |
| 1890s | 265 | |
| 1900s | 442 | |
| 1910s | 2,636 | |
| 1920s | 4,145 | |
| 1930s | 3,694 | |
| 1940s | 3,810 | |
| 1950s | 3,221 | |
| 1960s | 2,215 | |
| 1970s | 1,349 | |
| 1980s | 840 | |
| 1990s | 545 | |
| 2000s | 274 | |
| 2010s | 188 | |
| 2020s | 87 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Garland was the 258th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1922 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Garland
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Leonardpeak 1921
- Leroypeak 1924
- Raymondpeak 1924
- Haywardpeak 1956
- Wilbertpeak 1922
- Alvinpeak 1927
- Hiltonpeak 1920
- Alvispeak 1924
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.