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Garret

#7,337 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Garrett

Garret has been given to 13,252 babies in the U.S. since 1881. In 2025 it ranked #7,337 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 590 recorded.

Babies named Garret, 2025

1 in 301,000

Garret over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Garret: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Garrett

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Garret means

Garret is a variant of Garrett.

Origin, language, and formation

Garret is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Garrett.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13,247 boys were recorded with the name Garret between 1881 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 590 in 2000; its best national rank was #420 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,851 in 2020 to #7,337 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,217 in 2015 to #7,337 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Garret between 1982 and 1982. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1982; its best national rank was #11,034 in 1982.

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 Garret?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,337
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Garret 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Garret. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Garrets were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Garret was born before 1994 — so the typical Garret is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
33.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
26.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
12,726
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1990s — 33.9% of all recorded uses (4,492).

Is Garret 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
−758
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,486
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,120
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.18×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
1.9%
Peak was 2000 (590)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#420
2000

Spellings of Garret

Garret is not the most common spelling — Warren is, with 29.5% against Garret's 2.1%.

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 Garret is used

Across 1910–2025, Garret was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 6,667 boys, against 1 in 17,857 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in 100,000).

115 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 6,667
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 7,692
  3. 3Utah1 in 7,692
  4. 4Washington1 in 8,333
  5. 5Colorado1 in 9,091
  6. 6Nebraska1 in 9,091
  7. 7South Dakota1 in 9,091
  8. 8Kansas1 in 10,000

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

Garret around the world

Where Garret 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.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2004
    #3,651
    in 2004
  • Ireland
    1965–2008
    #698
    in 2008
  • Canada
    1991–2021
    #2,989
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1978–1995
    #533
    in 1995

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Garret

People whose public names include Garret, 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.

Garret in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Garret. Linked forms have their own page here.

GarthGarritGarrett

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Garret by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,337
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,486
Best rank ever
#420
2000
Peak year
2000
590 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
13,247
Count in 2025
11

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,034
1982
Peak year
1982
5 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
1982
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Garret

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

GaretGarettGarthGarethGarlandGarrickGarnerGarnetGarrisonGarrenGarnettGarryGardnerGarfieldGaroldGarvinGarrettGarenGarionJaretBarretBretJarretGarron

Names with a curve like Garret

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

JordonNathanialBrendonZackeryNigelStephonTyreeDavonJaronDevanTyrellTrever

Sibling names for Garret

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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