Garv
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Garv has been given to 119 babies in the U.S. since 2004. 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 2004, with 17 recorded.
Babies named Garv, 2024
1 in 557,000
Garv 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Garv?
Garv had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 557,000
- 6 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 287,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 386,177 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Garv sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Garv. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Garvs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Garv was born before 2009 — so the typical Garv is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 53.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 119
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 53.8% of all recorded uses (64).
Is Garv 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2004 (17)
- Years since peak
- 21
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.8% average annual change
Spellings of Garv
Garv is not the most common spelling — Mark is, with 37.4% against Garv'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.
Garv around the world
Where Garv 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 & Wales2005–2017#3,996in 2017
- Canada2005–2017#2,944in 2017
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.
Garv by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Garv
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Garv
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.