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Gari

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Wheat

Gari has been given to 643 babies in the U.S. since 1938. 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 1967, with 24 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 75% girls, 25% boys all-time.

Babies named Gari, 2007

1 in 800,000

Gari over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Gari over time

In 2007, Gari went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19382007

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Gari: meaning, origin, and history

Wheat

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gari means

Gari means “wheat”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Gari is used in Basque.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈɡa.ɾi/ for Gari.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 485 girls were recorded with the name Gari between 1938 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 24 in 1967; its best national rank was #2,484 in 1938.

In the United States, 158 boys were recorded with the name Gari between 1938 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1963; its best national rank was #2,353 in 1963.

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 Gari?

Gari had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2007
1 in 800,000
5 of 3,997,748 births
Among girls only
1 in 384,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2007
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
554,207 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gari sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2007 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 554,207 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gari. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Garis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gari was born before 1964 — so the typical Gari is around 61 today.

Median birth year
1964
About 61 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
32.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
407
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1960s — 32.4% of all recorded uses (157).

Is Gari 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1967 (24)
Years since peak
58
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,484
1938

Spellings of Gari

Gari is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 53.3% against Gari's <0.01%.

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 Gari is used

Across 1910–2025, Gari was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,455,707 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Gari has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gari around the world

Where Gari 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.

  • Scotland
    1991–1991
    #370
    in 1991
  • France
    2017–2017
    #5,675
    in 2017

Popularity data from National Records of Scotland and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Gari by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,484
1938
Peak year
1967
24 that year
First recorded
1938
Last recorded
2007
All-time count
485
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,353
1963
Peak year
1963
13 that year
First recorded
1938
Last recorded
1993
All-time count
158
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gari

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

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Sibling names for Gari

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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