Garrett
Garrett is ranked 562nd among boys in 2024 (527 births). Its best rank was 74th, in 2000.
- Rank in 2024
- #562down 79 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 5270.03% of boys
- Peak year
- 20005,840 births
- Best rank
- #74in 2000
- Since 1880
- 135,222people given the name
The story in the numbers
135,222 boys have been named Garrett in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2000, with 5,840 births — 0.30% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 237 → 562).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1997, and the 1990s alone account for 34%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 13 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Garrett | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 128 | |
| 1890s | 210 | |
| 1900s | 172 | |
| 1910s | 544 | |
| 1920s | 786 | |
| 1930s | 726 | |
| 1940s | 1,324 | |
| 1950s | 1,773 | |
| 1960s | 3,087 | |
| 1970s | 6,619 | |
| 1980s | 20,475 | |
| 1990s | 45,327 | |
| 2000s | 36,223 | |
| 2010s | 14,381 | |
| 2020s | 3,447 |
In 2000, its biggest year
Garrett was the 74th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2000 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 2000.
Names that rose and fell with Garrett
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Devinpeak 1998
- Brendonpeak 1998
- Devonpeak 1997
- Trevorpeak 1998
- Dandrepeak 2000
- Brendanpeak 1999
- Jihadpeak 2000
- Dashonpeak 1997
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.