Garreth
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Garreth has been given to 431 babies in the U.S. since 1940. 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 1990, with 19 recorded.
Babies named Garreth, 2017
1 in 715,000
Garreth over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Garreth?
Garreth had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2017
- 1 in 715,000
- 5 of 3,577,106 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 370,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2017
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 495,893 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Garreth sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Garreth. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Garreths were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Garreth was born before 1993 — so the typical Garreth is around 32 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 30.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 50.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 421
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 30.2% of all recorded uses (130).
Is Garreth 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 1990 (19)
- Years since peak
- 35
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.2% average annual change
Spellings of Garreth
Garreth is not the most common spelling — Garrett is, with 56.4% against Garreth's 0.18%.
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 Garreth is used
Across 1910–2025, Garreth was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 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. Garreth has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Garreth around the world
Where Garreth 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 & Wales2005–2005#3,849in 2005
- Scotland1980–1993#378in 1993
- Ireland1966–2009#701in 2009
- Canada1996–1998#1,953in 1998
- South Australia1969–2002#606in 2002
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Garreth by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Garreth
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Garreth
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.