Garrey

Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Garrey has been given to 22 babies in the U.S. since 1943. 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 1945, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Garrey, 1954

1 in 663,000

Garrey over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Garrey?

Garrey had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1954, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1954
1 in 663,000
6 of 3,979,464 births
Among boys only
1 in 340,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1954
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,727 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Garrey 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 1954 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 459,727 children born in 1954 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Garrey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Garreys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Garrey was born before 1945 — so the typical Garrey is around 80 today.

Median birth year
1945
About 80 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
72.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6
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1940s — 72.7% of all recorded uses (16).

Is Garrey 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 1945 (6)
Years since peak
80
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#3,123
1945

Spellings of Garrey

Garrey is not the most common spelling — Gary is, with 29.0% against Garrey'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.

Garrey around the world

Where Garrey 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
    1949–1949
    #258
    in 1949

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

Garrey 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
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Best rank ever
#3,123
1945
Peak year
1945
6 that year
First recorded
1943
Last recorded
1954
All-time count
22
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Garrey

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

Sibling names for Garrey

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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