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Garrison

#1,757 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Garrison has been given to 8,514 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #1,757 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 353 recorded.

Babies named Garrison, 2025

1 in 36,000

Garrison over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Garrison: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Garrison means

Garrison is a given name.

The naming story behind Garrison

Wikidata records Garrison as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q94102339, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,509 boys were recorded with the name Garrison between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 353 in 1999; its best national rank was #565 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,299 in 2020 to #1,757 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,040 in 2015 to #1,757 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Garrison between 1993 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1993; its best national rank was #14,237 in 1993.

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 Garrison?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 36,000
92 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 18,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,757
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
24,978 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Garrison 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 24,978 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Garrison. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Garrisons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Garrison was born before 2002 — so the typical Garrison is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
28.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
8,166
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 28.3% of all recorded uses (2,412).

Is Garrison 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
+25
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−458
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−717
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.48×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
26.1%
Peak was 1999 (353)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#565
1999

Spellings of Garrison

Garrison is not the most common spelling — Harrison is, with 85.9% against Garrison's 7.4%.

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 Garrison is used

Across 2016–2025, Garrison was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 5,882 boys, against 1 in 16,142 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in 100,000).

117 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 5,882
  2. 2Tennessee1 in 5,882
  3. 3Georgia1 in 6,667
  4. 4South Carolina1 in 8,333
  5. 5Wisconsin1 in 8,333
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 9,091
  7. 7Missouri1 in 11,111
  8. 8Texas1 in 11,111

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.

Garrison around the world

Where Garrison 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
    1997–2006
    #4,052
    in 2006
  • Canada
    1991–2022
    #2,602
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Garrison

People whose public names include Garrison, 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.

Garrison by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,757
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 458
Best rank ever
#565
1999
Peak year
1999
353 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,509
Count in 2025
92

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#14,237
1993
Peak year
1993
5 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
1993
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Garrison

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

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Names with a curve like Garrison

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

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Sibling names for Garrison

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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