Garry
Garry is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 19 births. Its best rank was 138th, in 1954.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 190.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 19542,218 births
- Best rank
- #138in 1954
- Since 1880
- 47,654people given the name
The story in the numbers
47,654 boys have been named Garry in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1954, with 2,218 births — 0.11% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 19 births in 2024, against 2,218 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1955, and the 1950s alone account for 39%. It has spent 69 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Garry | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 27 | |
| 1890s | 12 | |
| 1900s | 22 | |
| 1910s | 153 | |
| 1920s | 309 | |
| 1930s | 2,115 | |
| 1940s | 10,318 | |
| 1950s | 18,791 | |
| 1960s | 7,404 | |
| 1970s | 3,647 | |
| 1980s | 2,544 | |
| 1990s | 1,237 | |
| 2000s | 649 | |
| 2010s | 330 | |
| 2020s | 96 |
In 1954, its biggest year
Garry was the 138th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1954 were Michael, Robert, James, John and David. See all of 1954.
Names that rose and fell with Garry
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Garypeak 1952
- Dennispeak 1952
- Brucepeak 1956
- Butchpeak 1956
- Ronniepeak 1947
- Terrypeak 1957
- Donniepeak 1952
- Dannypeak 1954
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.