Meaning not yet researched.
Garland: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #251 in 1905.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #251 in 1905; #6,928 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Garland in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,928 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1905, at #251.
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Garland: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 boys in 2025. Peak: #251 in 1905 · most boys in one year: 478 (1922).
In 2025, 12 US boys were named Garland, making it the 6,928th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,189 places from #5,739 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 16 boys named Garland in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #251, reached in 1905. The most boys given the name in a single year was 478, in 1922. For comparison, it was #4,599 in 2015 and #350 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Garland in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 11 babies with the name. In all, 24,712 US babies have been given the name, 3.5% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 4,293 babies named Garland.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 178 US boys were named Garland; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 23. In 2025 that was about 1 in 142,340 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Garlund and Garlond are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Garlund (6), Garlond (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Garland in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 12 | #6,928 |
| 2024 | — | — | 16 | #5,739 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,989 | 23 | #4,506 |
| 2022 | — | — | 17 | #5,509 |
| 2021 | — | — | 15 | #5,866 |
| 2020 | — | — | 16 | #5,534 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,365 | 20 | #4,852 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,498 | 21 | #4,650 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,003 | 16 | #5,613 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,132 | 22 | #4,516 |
| 2015 | — | — | 21 | #4,599 |
| 2014 | — | — | 12 | #6,773 |
| 2013 | — | — | 18 | #5,039 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,768 | 23 | #4,297 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,472 | 21 | #4,555 |
| 2010 | — | — | 14 | #6,151 |
| 2009 | — | — | 20 | #4,812 |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,456 | 25 | #4,067 |
| 2007 | — | — | 25 | #4,046 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,774 | 26 | #3,824 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,677 | 26 | #3,652 |
| 2004 | — | — | 21 | #4,165 |
| 2003 | — | — | 27 | #3,393 |
| 2002 | — | — | 24 | #3,597 |
| 2001 | — | — | 40 | #2,445 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,407 | 40 | #2,397 |
| 1999 | — | — | 38 | #2,369 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,539 | 30 | #2,734 |
| 1997 | — | — | 48 | #1,916 |
| 1996 | — | — | 44 | #1,999 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,898 | 50 | #1,763 |
| 1994 | — | — | 69 | #1,410 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,242 | 57 | #1,580 |
| 1992 | — | — | 70 | #1,354 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,884 | 63 | #1,436 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,077 | 76 | #1,273 |
| 1989 | — | — | 77 | #1,223 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,798 | 89 | #1,051 |
| 1987 | — | — | 72 | #1,134 |
| 1986 | — | — | 55 | #1,326 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,804 | 64 | #1,174 |
| 1984 | — | — | 86 | #953 |
| 1983 | — | — | 85 | #959 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,059 | 99 | #901 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,399 | 110 | #837 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,893 | 103 | #885 |
| 1979 | — | — | 103 | #855 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,892 | 98 | #871 |
| 1977 | — | — | 116 | #793 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,477 | 104 | #821 |
| 1975 | — | — | 144 | #690 |
| 1974 | — | — | 133 | #713 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,715 | 153 | #643 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,777 | 169 | #608 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,679 | 164 | #643 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,401 | 165 | #631 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,161 | 173 | #593 |
| 1968 | — | — | 189 | #549 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,122 | 168 | #583 |
| 1966 | — | — | 191 | #555 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,846 | 213 | #526 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,445 | 229 | #516 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,498 | 240 | #516 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,866 | 254 | #498 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,849 | 298 | #473 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,909 | 261 | #491 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,788 | 236 | #509 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,635 | 301 | #452 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,624 | 271 | #471 |
| 1956 | — | — | 289 | #443 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,645 | 331 | #400 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,403 | 355 | #376 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,173 | 333 | #379 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,963 | 342 | #363 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,345 | 394 | #345 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,075 | 369 | #350 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,661 | 402 | #335 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,744 | 388 | #340 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,315 | 369 | #355 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,098 | 387 | #328 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,983 | 316 | #337 |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,133 | 378 | #312 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,751 | 446 | #293 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,539 | 376 | #317 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,732 | 381 | #298 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,813 | 367 | #292 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,787 | 357 | #293 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,284 | 372 | #285 |
| 1937 | 9 | #3,019 | 374 | #282 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,858 | 342 | #292 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,803 | 360 | #285 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,338 | 378 | #275 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,223 | 375 | #272 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,703 | 383 | #278 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,050 | 362 | #293 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,460 | 392 | #288 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,260 | 384 | #284 |
| 1928 | 18 | #2,043 | 387 | #287 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,393 | 374 | #299 |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,131 | 412 | #281 |
| 1925 | 25 | #1,714 | 405 | #284 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,723 | 413 | #281 |
| 1923 | 20 | #1,971 | 434 | #269 |
| 1922 | 21 | #1,920 | 478 | #258 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,840 | 454 | #264 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,392 | 403 | #278 |
| 1919 | 23 | #1,714 | 379 | #271 |
| 1918 | 18 | #2,061 | 402 | #265 |
| 1917 | 17 | #2,033 | 396 | #254 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,300 | 365 | #260 |
| 1915 | 22 | #1,590 | 343 | #262 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,339 | 252 | #277 |
| 1913 | 16 | #1,489 | 193 | #286 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,228 | 145 | #300 |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,848 | 87 | #282 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,684 | 74 | #284 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,055 | 57 | #304 |
| 1908 | — | — | 51 | #308 |
| 1907 | — | — | 56 | #282 |
| 1906 | — | — | 45 | #307 |
| 1905 | — | — | 60 | #251 |
| 1904 | — | — | 41 | #309 |
| 1903 | — | — | 27 | #376 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,893 | 39 | #309 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,775 | 30 | #327 |
| 1900 | — | — | 36 | #368 |
| 1899 | — | — | 44 | #251 |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,419 | 34 | #330 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,442 | 27 | #362 |
| 1896 | — | — | 23 | #410 |
| 1895 | — | — | 30 | #338 |
| 1894 | — | — | 29 | #333 |
| 1893 | — | — | 25 | #363 |
| 1892 | — | — | 18 | #468 |
| 1891 | — | — | 18 | #420 |
| 1890 | — | — | 17 | #444 |
| 1889 | — | — | 9 | #691 |
| 1888 | — | — | 18 | #450 |
| 1887 | — | — | 17 | #415 |
| 1886 | — | — | 19 | #406 |
| 1885 | — | — | 12 | #560 |
| 1884 | — | — | 12 | #556 |
| 1883 | — | — | 11 | #571 |
| 1882 | — | — | 17 | #441 |
| 1881 | — | — | 7 | #738 |
| 1880 | — | — | 11 | #585 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).