Meaning not yet researched.
Garret: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #420 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #420 in 2000; #7,341 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Garret in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,341 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #420.
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Garret: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 boys in 2025. Peak: #420 in 2000 · most boys in one year: 590 (2000).
In 2025, 11 US boys were named Garret, making it the 7,341st most common boys’ name of the year, down 757 places from #6,584 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 13 boys named Garret in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #420, reached in 2000. That year also had the most boys given the name: 590. For comparison, it was #2,217 in 2015 and #1,348 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Garret in 117 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 6 babies. In all, 13,252 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 4,492 babies named Garret.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 290 US boys were named Garret; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 45. In 2025 that was about 1 in 155,280 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Garrett (136,214 babies since 1880), Garth (9,666 babies since 1880), Garett (4,941 babies since 1880) and Gareth (4,394 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Garit 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Garit (19).
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 Garret in the open dataset we use.
Garret is listed as a nickname for Garrett.
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 | — | — | 11 | #7,341 |
| 2024 | — | — | 13 | #6,584 |
| 2023 | — | — | 20 | #4,942 |
| 2022 | — | — | 29 | #3,800 |
| 2021 | — | — | 29 | #3,763 |
| 2020 | — | — | 27 | #3,854 |
| 2019 | — | — | 28 | #3,833 |
| 2018 | — | — | 45 | #2,719 |
| 2017 | — | — | 45 | #2,729 |
| 2016 | — | — | 43 | #2,804 |
| 2015 | — | — | 61 | #2,217 |
| 2014 | — | — | 62 | #2,185 |
| 2013 | — | — | 66 | #2,050 |
| 2012 | — | — | 109 | #1,482 |
| 2011 | — | — | 123 | #1,366 |
| 2010 | — | — | 131 | #1,312 |
| 2009 | — | — | 155 | #1,169 |
| 2008 | — | — | 164 | #1,117 |
| 2007 | — | — | 211 | #941 |
| 2006 | — | — | 277 | #762 |
| 2005 | — | — | 300 | #689 |
| 2004 | — | — | 301 | #674 |
| 2003 | — | — | 343 | #610 |
| 2002 | — | — | 383 | #572 |
| 2001 | — | — | 468 | #491 |
| 2000 | — | — | 590 | #420 |
| 1999 | — | — | 527 | #437 |
| 1998 | — | — | 458 | #477 |
| 1997 | — | — | 477 | #463 |
| 1996 | — | — | 455 | #479 |
| 1995 | — | — | 438 | #491 |
| 1994 | — | — | 416 | #493 |
| 1993 | — | — | 484 | #452 |
| 1992 | — | — | 498 | #442 |
| 1991 | — | — | 359 | #534 |
| 1990 | — | — | 380 | #505 |
| 1989 | — | — | 326 | #534 |
| 1988 | — | — | 254 | #578 |
| 1987 | — | — | 252 | #570 |
| 1986 | — | — | 272 | #541 |
| 1985 | — | — | 261 | #544 |
| 1984 | — | — | 191 | #618 |
| 1983 | — | — | 196 | #611 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,038 | 156 | #695 |
| 1981 | — | — | 140 | #732 |
| 1980 | — | — | 144 | #731 |
| 1979 | — | — | 125 | #775 |
| 1978 | — | — | 83 | #951 |
| 1977 | — | — | 64 | #1,086 |
| 1976 | — | — | 63 | #1,052 |
| 1975 | — | — | 62 | #1,058 |
| 1974 | — | — | 77 | #929 |
| 1973 | — | — | 66 | #996 |
| 1972 | — | — | 86 | #870 |
| 1971 | — | — | 64 | #1,021 |
| 1970 | — | — | 101 | #807 |
| 1969 | — | — | 88 | #826 |
| 1968 | — | — | 89 | #786 |
| 1967 | — | — | 95 | #757 |
| 1966 | — | — | 97 | #752 |
| 1965 | — | — | 95 | #760 |
| 1964 | — | — | 101 | #761 |
| 1963 | — | — | 104 | #756 |
| 1962 | — | — | 91 | #798 |
| 1961 | — | — | 64 | #960 |
| 1960 | — | — | 60 | #989 |
| 1959 | — | — | 33 | #1,370 |
| 1958 | — | — | 34 | #1,325 |
| 1957 | — | — | 29 | #1,465 |
| 1956 | — | — | 35 | #1,306 |
| 1955 | — | — | 40 | #1,191 |
| 1954 | — | — | 39 | #1,207 |
| 1953 | — | — | 30 | #1,390 |
| 1952 | — | — | 33 | #1,304 |
| 1951 | — | — | 31 | #1,334 |
| 1950 | — | — | 29 | #1,348 |
| 1949 | — | — | 31 | #1,309 |
| 1948 | — | — | 21 | #1,625 |
| 1947 | — | — | 28 | #1,404 |
| 1946 | — | — | 26 | #1,393 |
| 1945 | — | — | 15 | #1,807 |
| 1944 | — | — | 19 | #1,596 |
| 1943 | — | — | 29 | #1,291 |
| 1942 | — | — | 9 | #2,587 |
| 1941 | — | — | 9 | #2,545 |
| 1940 | — | — | 18 | #1,651 |
| 1939 | — | — | 10 | #2,337 |
| 1938 | — | — | 5 | #3,720 |
| 1937 | — | — | 14 | #1,940 |
| 1936 | — | — | 9 | #2,512 |
| 1935 | — | — | 10 | #2,438 |
| 1934 | — | — | 10 | #2,457 |
| 1933 | — | — | 9 | #2,612 |
| 1932 | — | — | 16 | #1,872 |
| 1931 | — | — | 11 | #2,377 |
| 1930 | — | — | 13 | #2,222 |
| 1929 | — | — | 13 | #2,247 |
| 1928 | — | — | 16 | #1,999 |
| 1927 | — | — | 17 | #1,980 |
| 1926 | — | — | 10 | #2,792 |
| 1925 | — | — | 6 | #3,908 |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,602 |
| 1923 | — | — | 15 | #2,165 |
| 1922 | — | — | 12 | #2,542 |
| 1921 | — | — | 9 | #3,073 |
| 1919 | — | — | 15 | #2,094 |
| 1918 | — | — | 8 | #3,208 |
| 1917 | — | — | 7 | #3,352 |
| 1916 | — | — | 16 | #1,881 |
| 1915 | — | — | 15 | #1,910 |
| 1914 | — | — | 9 | #2,334 |
| 1913 | — | — | 10 | #1,854 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,675 |
| 1900 | — | — | 5 | #1,391 |
| 1895 | — | — | 5 | #1,146 |
| 1883 | — | — | 5 | #950 |
| 1881 | — | — | 6 | #812 |
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).