Garvice
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Garvice has been given to 33 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1913, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Garvice, 1922
1 in 458,000
Garvice 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Garvice?
Garvice had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1922, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1922
- 1 in 458,000
- 5 of 2,289,103 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 218,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1922
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 317,338 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Garvice sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1922 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 317,338 children born in 1922 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Garvice. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Garvices were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Garvice was born before 1915 — so the typical Garvice is around 110 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 84.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 84.8% of all recorded uses (28).
Is Garvice 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 1913 (6)
- Years since peak
- 112
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 13.3% average annual change
Spellings of Garvice
Garvice is not the most common spelling — Garrick is, with 53.0% against Garvice's 0.32%.
Garvice by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Garvice
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Garvice
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.