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Garth

#9,179 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly old man, through Gareth

Garth has been given to 9,666 babies in the U.S. since 1906. In 2025 it ranked #9,179 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1954, with 268 recorded.

Babies named Garth, 2025

1 in 414,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Garth: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly old man, through Gareth

Welsh

What Garth means

Garth belongs to the name family reached through Garth → Gareth. Its meaning is “old man”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Welsh garth probably has its influence on Welsh place names.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Garth (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Garth is used in English. Its origins include Welsh.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gareth.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,666 boys were recorded with the name Garth between 1906 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 268 in 1954; its best national rank was #443 in 1954.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,753 in 2020 to #9,179 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,772 in 2015 to #9,179 in 2025.

How common is Garth?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,179
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Garth 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Garth. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Garths were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Garth was born before 1962 — so the typical Garth is around 63 today.

Median birth year
1962
About 63 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
19.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
6,970
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 19.2% of all recorded uses (1,853).

Is Garth 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
−3,880
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,426
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,407
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.40×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.0%
Peak was 1954 (268)
Years since peak
71
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
45.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#443
1954

Spellings of Garth

Garth is not the most common spelling — Gary is, with 85.6% against Garth's 0.92%.

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 Garth is used

Across 1910–2025, Garth was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 2,326 boys, against 1 in 28,442 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

043 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 2,326
  2. 2Idaho1 in 3,030
  3. 3Oregon1 in 9,091
  4. 4Michigan1 in 11,111
  5. 5Washington1 in 11,111
  6. 6California1 in 16,667
  7. 7Colorado1 in 25,000
  8. 8New York1 in 25,000

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

Garth around the world

Where Garth 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
    1996–2010
    #4,678
    in 2010
  • Northern Ireland
    1998–1999
    #277
    in 1999
  • Ireland
    1978–1995
    #334
    in 1995
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1944–2003
    #588
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NISRA 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 Garth

People whose public names include Garth, 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.

Garth in other languages

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

GarGardGarethGarretGarrettGerthGyrth

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

Garth by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,179
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,426
Best rank ever
#443
1954
Peak year
1954
268 that year
First recorded
1906
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,666
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Garth

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

GarretGarettGarethGarryGarrickGarenGarnerGarnetGarrisonGarrenGarlandGarnettGardnerWorthParthGarfieldGaretGareyGaroldGarvinGarinGaronGarynGarion

Names with a curve like Garth

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

DanialCliffAlphonsoBartonToneyCornellKirbyMichelCareyJoesphSandyKelley

Sibling names for Garth

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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