Meaning not yet researched.
Garry: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #138 in 1954.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #138 in 1954; #5,949 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Garry in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,949 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1954, at #138.
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Garry: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 boys in 2025. Peak: #138 in 1954 · most boys in one year: 2,218 (1954).
In 2025, 15 US boys were named Garry, making it the 5,949th most common boys’ name of the year, down 823 places from #5,126 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 19 boys named Garry in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #138, reached in 1954. That year also had the most boys given the name: 2,218. For comparison, it was #4,014 in 2015 and #164 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Garry in 127 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 6 babies. In all, 47,849 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 18,868 babies named Garry.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 238 US boys were named Garry; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 37. In 2025 that was about 1 in 113,872 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Gary (905,438 babies since 1880) and Harry (425,883 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Garrie 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: Garrie (416).
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 Garry in the open dataset we use.
Garry 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 | — | — | 15 | #5,949 |
| 2024 | — | — | 19 | #5,126 |
| 2023 | — | — | 14 | #6,310 |
| 2022 | — | — | 19 | #5,096 |
| 2021 | — | — | 24 | #4,288 |
| 2020 | — | — | 20 | #4,756 |
| 2019 | — | — | 27 | #3,932 |
| 2018 | — | — | 34 | #3,324 |
| 2017 | — | — | 29 | #3,706 |
| 2016 | — | — | 37 | #3,130 |
| 2015 | — | — | 26 | #4,014 |
| 2014 | — | — | 36 | #3,109 |
| 2013 | — | — | 34 | #3,216 |
| 2012 | — | — | 41 | #2,880 |
| 2011 | — | — | 36 | #3,130 |
| 2010 | — | — | 30 | #3,563 |
| 2009 | — | — | 36 | #3,182 |
| 2008 | — | — | 53 | #2,414 |
| 2007 | — | — | 72 | #1,963 |
| 2006 | — | — | 68 | #1,979 |
| 2005 | — | — | 62 | #2,017 |
| 2004 | — | — | 66 | #1,863 |
| 2003 | — | — | 61 | #1,915 |
| 2002 | — | — | 77 | #1,591 |
| 2001 | — | — | 67 | #1,721 |
| 2000 | — | — | 87 | #1,421 |
| 1999 | — | — | 83 | #1,409 |
| 1998 | — | — | 98 | #1,240 |
| 1997 | — | — | 100 | #1,193 |
| 1996 | — | — | 105 | #1,133 |
| 1995 | — | — | 107 | #1,098 |
| 1994 | — | — | 129 | #975 |
| 1993 | — | — | 111 | #1,052 |
| 1992 | — | — | 167 | #811 |
| 1991 | — | — | 163 | #811 |
| 1990 | — | — | 174 | #770 |
| 1989 | — | — | 188 | #723 |
| 1988 | — | — | 213 | #649 |
| 1987 | — | — | 211 | #631 |
| 1986 | — | — | 240 | #576 |
| 1985 | — | — | 251 | #556 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,509 | 286 | #502 |
| 1983 | — | — | 262 | #516 |
| 1982 | — | — | 273 | #514 |
| 1981 | — | — | 311 | #471 |
| 1980 | — | — | 309 | #478 |
| 1979 | — | — | 323 | #450 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,263 | 322 | #441 |
| 1977 | — | — | 360 | #417 |
| 1976 | — | — | 362 | #408 |
| 1975 | — | — | 336 | #427 |
| 1974 | — | — | 372 | #402 |
| 1973 | — | — | 331 | #429 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,695 | 366 | #413 |
| 1971 | — | — | 412 | #400 |
| 1970 | — | — | 463 | #377 |
| 1969 | — | — | 413 | #386 |
| 1968 | — | — | 422 | #378 |
| 1967 | — | — | 485 | #341 |
| 1966 | — | — | 558 | #315 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,465 | 549 | #325 |
| 1964 | — | — | 740 | #287 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,499 | 896 | #256 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,903 | 990 | #247 |
| 1961 | — | — | 1,116 | #238 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,673 | 1,235 | #225 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,790 | 1,475 | #195 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,063 | 1,762 | #172 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,542 | 2,042 | #158 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,508 | 2,043 | #153 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,511 | 2,193 | #140 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,566 | 2,218 | #138 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,254 | 2,047 | #142 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,117 | 1,808 | #155 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,042 | 1,670 | #154 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,076 | 1,534 | #164 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,713 | 1,418 | #165 |
| 1948 | — | — | 1,399 | #167 |
| 1947 | — | — | 1,449 | #164 |
| 1946 | — | — | 1,313 | #162 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,791 | 1,050 | #165 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,490 | 929 | #176 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,915 | 830 | #194 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,268 | 760 | #203 |
| 1941 | — | — | 613 | #217 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,049 | 557 | #222 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,482 | 406 | #270 |
| 1938 | — | — | 368 | #288 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,968 | 292 | #315 |
| 1936 | — | — | 269 | #335 |
| 1935 | — | — | 259 | #343 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,582 | 164 | #442 |
| 1933 | — | — | 117 | #526 |
| 1932 | — | — | 95 | #609 |
| 1931 | — | — | 82 | #662 |
| 1930 | — | — | 63 | #817 |
| 1929 | — | — | 51 | #947 |
| 1928 | — | — | 46 | #1,022 |
| 1927 | — | — | 32 | #1,305 |
| 1926 | — | — | 30 | #1,340 |
| 1925 | — | — | 27 | #1,434 |
| 1924 | — | — | 24 | #1,594 |
| 1923 | — | — | 28 | #1,394 |
| 1922 | — | — | 21 | #1,722 |
| 1921 | — | — | 22 | #1,670 |
| 1920 | — | — | 28 | #1,398 |
| 1919 | — | — | 25 | #1,460 |
| 1918 | — | — | 26 | #1,418 |
| 1917 | — | — | 12 | #2,339 |
| 1916 | — | — | 23 | #1,479 |
| 1915 | — | — | 17 | #1,731 |
| 1914 | — | — | 14 | #1,720 |
| 1913 | — | — | 15 | #1,392 |
| 1912 | — | — | 11 | #1,565 |
| 1911 | — | — | 5 | #1,834 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,681 |
| 1908 | — | — | 5 | #1,465 |
| 1904 | — | — | 5 | #1,277 |
| 1903 | — | — | 6 | #1,061 |
| 1902 | — | — | 6 | #1,060 |
| 1898 | — | — | 5 | #1,197 |
| 1892 | — | — | 7 | #891 |
| 1889 | — | — | 5 | #1,027 |
| 1886 | — | — | 5 | #1,019 |
| 1885 | — | — | 5 | #994 |
| 1882 | — | — | 6 | #876 |
| 1880 | — | — | 6 | #856 |
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).