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Garey

Boys' name

Variant of Gary

Garey has been given to 1,457 babies in the U.S. since 1931. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1952, with 61 recorded.

Babies named Garey, 2013

1 in 608,000

Garey over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Garey: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Gary

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Garey means

Garey is a variant of Gary.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Garey is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈɡæɹ.i/ and /ˈɡɛɹ.i/ for Garey.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Garey → Gary. The family’s meaning is “spear”, recorded in English with the source elements geri.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gary.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,457 boys were recorded with the name Garey between 1931 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 61 in 1952; its best national rank was #908 in 1952.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Garey?

Garey had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 608,000
6 of 3,645,938 births
Among boys only
1 in 315,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
421,196 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Garey 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 2013 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 421,196 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Garey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gareys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Garey was born before 1955 — so the typical Garey is around 70 today.

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
27.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
973
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1950s — 27.2% of all recorded uses (397).

Is Garey 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1952 (61)
Years since peak
73
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#908
1952

Spellings of Garey

Garey is not the most common spelling — Gary is, with 24.9% against Garey's 0.04%.

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 Garey is used

Across 1910–2025, Garey was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 582,749 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in —
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Kansas1 in —
  6. 6Kentucky1 in —
  7. 7Michigan1 in —
  8. 8Minnesota1 in —

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. Garey has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Garey around the world

Where Garey 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.

  • South Australia
    1963–1963
    #563
    in 1963

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Garey by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#908
1952
Peak year
1952
61 that year
First recorded
1931
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
1,457
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Garey

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

GarenGarrenGarnetGarnerGaretGarinGaronGarynGarethGarionGarthShreyDareyToreyGarettGardnerGarreyGarnettGarvinGarronAndreyGaroldGarrickGarret

Sibling names for Garey

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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