Garrie
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Garrie has been given to 416 babies in the U.S. since 1918. 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 1952, with 27 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 82% boys, 18% girls all-time.
Babies named Garrie, 1990
1 in 564,000
Garrie 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Garrie over time
In 1990, Garrie went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
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.
How common is Garrie?
Garrie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1990, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1990
- 1 in 564,000
- 7 of 3,949,959 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 293,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1990
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 391,130 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Garrie sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1990 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 391,130 children born in 1990 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Garrie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Garries were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Garrie was born before 1952 — so the typical Garrie is around 73 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 33.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 16.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 201
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 33.6% of all recorded uses (115).
Is Garrie 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1952 (27)
- Years since peak
- 73
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.8% average annual change
Spellings of Garrie
Garrie is not the most common spelling — Gabriel is, with 69.7% against Garrie's 0.06%.
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.
Garrie around the world
Where Garrie 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.
- Scotland1975–1989#335in 1989
- South Australia1944–1981#311in 1981
Popularity data from National Records of Scotland and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Garrie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Garrie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Garrie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.