In 2025, 92 US boys were named Garrison, making it the 1,757th most common boys’ name of the year, up 25 places from #1,782 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 92 boys named Garrison in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #566, reached in 1999. That year also had the most boys given the name: 353. For comparison, it was #1,040 in 2015 and #2,251 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Garrison in 111 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 6 babies. In all, 8,514 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,412 babies named Garrison.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,375 US boys were named Garrison; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 173. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,566 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Garrison ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #650 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Garison and Garyson are summarised on this page.