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Garik

Boys' name

Diminutive of Garegin

Garik has been given to 90 babies in the U.S. since 1989. 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 1995, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Garik, 2014

1 in 530,000

Garik over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Garik: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Garegin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Garik means

Garik is a diminutive of Garegin.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Garik is used in Armenian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ɡɑ.ˈɾik/ and /kʰɑ.ˈɾiɡ/ for Garik.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Garegin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 90 boys were recorded with the name Garik between 1989 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1995; its best national rank was #5,633 in 1995.

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 Garik?

Garik had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 530,000
7 of 3,706,812 births
Among boys only
1 in 274,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
367,053 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Garik 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 2014 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 367,053 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Garik. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gariks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Garik was born before 2004 — so the typical Garik is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
34.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
90
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 34.4% of all recorded uses (31).

Is Garik 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
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1995 (10)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,633
1995

Spellings of Garik

Garik is not the most common spelling — Mark is, with 44.6% against Garik'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.

Garik around the world

Where Garik 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.

  • France
    2005–2018
    #4,615
    in 2018

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Garik 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
#5,633
1995
Peak year
1995
10 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
90
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Garik

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

GarrikGarrusGarynGaranGardyGarekAirikUlrikEdrikEmrikAlrikLorikGarrisGarmonRurikGaredAarikEmerikGarvGarlenGarionMarikGarsonGarrel

Sibling names for Garik

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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