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Garett

#11,114 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Garett has been given to 4,941 babies in the U.S. since 1952. In 2025 it ranked #11,114 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 216 recorded.

Babies named Garett, 2025

1 in 553,000

Garett over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Garett: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Garett means

Garett is a given name.

The naming story behind Garett

Wikidata records Garett as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q88542344, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,941 boys were recorded with the name Garett between 1952 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 216 in 2000; its best national rank was #768 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,072 in 2020 to #11,114 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,916 in 2015 to #11,114 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Garett?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,114
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Garett sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Garett. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Garetts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Garett was born before 1995 — so the typical Garett is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
30.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
29.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,941
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Choose a decade

1990s — 30.4% of all recorded uses (1,501).

Is Garett rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,042
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,198
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.22×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.8%
Peak was 2000 (216)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#768
2000

Spellings of Garett

Garett is not the most common spelling — Brett is, with 39.2% against Garett's 1.2%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Garett is used

Across 1910–2025, Garett was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 65,279 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2Utah1 in 33,333
  3. 3Wisconsin1 in 33,333
  4. 4Colorado1 in 50,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 50,000
  6. 6Kansas1 in 50,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 50,000
  8. 8Minnesota1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Garett has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Garett around the world

Where Garett ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Ireland
    1964–2000
    #390
    in 2000
  • Canada
    1991–2020
    #2,945
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1984–1995
    #533
    in 1995

Popularity data from Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Garett

People whose public names include Garett, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Garett by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,114
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,042
Best rank ever
#768
2000
Peak year
2000
216 that year
First recorded
1952
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,941
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Garett

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Garett

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Garett, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Garett

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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