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Garrett

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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
Babies named Garrett, by year of birthboys
02.5k5k7.5k10k18801900192019401960198020002020

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

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadeboys named Garrett
1880s128
1890s210
1900s172
1910s544
1920s786
1930s726
1940s1,324
1950s1,773
1960s3,087
1970s6,619
1980s20,475
1990s45,327
2000s36,223
2010s14,381
2020s3,447

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.

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.