Meaning not yet researched.
Garth: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #444 in 1954.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #444 in 1954; #9,183 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Garth in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,183 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1954, at #444.
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Garth: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 boys in 2025. Peak: #444 in 1954 · most boys in one year: 268 (1954).
In 2025, 8 US boys were named Garth, making it the 9,183rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 3,880 places from #5,303 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 18 boys named Garth in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #444, reached in 1954. That year also had the most boys given the name: 268. For comparison, it was #4,774 in 2015 and #688 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Garth in 117 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1906 with 5 babies. In all, 9,666 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,853 babies named Garth.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 159 US boys were named Garth; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 22. In 2025 that was about 1 in 213,510 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Garrett (136,214 babies since 1880), Garret (13,252 babies since 1880) and Gareth (4,394 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Gard 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: Gard (15).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Garth 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 | — | — | 8 | #9,183 |
| 2024 | — | — | 18 | #5,303 |
| 2023 | — | — | 22 | #4,647 |
| 2022 | — | — | 21 | #4,761 |
| 2021 | — | — | 11 | #7,264 |
| 2020 | — | — | 20 | #4,757 |
| 2019 | — | — | 16 | #5,648 |
| 2018 | — | — | 15 | #5,865 |
| 2017 | — | — | 15 | #5,892 |
| 2016 | — | — | 13 | #6,467 |
| 2015 | — | — | 20 | #4,774 |
| 2014 | — | — | 16 | #5,557 |
| 2013 | — | — | 12 | #6,747 |
| 2012 | — | — | 8 | #9,144 |
| 2011 | — | — | 7 | #9,984 |
| 2010 | — | — | 16 | #5,572 |
| 2009 | — | — | 8 | #9,270 |
| 2008 | — | — | 19 | #4,957 |
| 2007 | — | — | 6 | #11,400 |
| 2006 | — | — | 9 | #8,233 |
| 2005 | — | — | 14 | #5,674 |
| 2004 | — | — | 16 | #5,090 |
| 2003 | — | — | 15 | #5,121 |
| 2002 | — | — | 17 | #4,571 |
| 2001 | — | — | 30 | #3,013 |
| 2000 | — | — | 22 | #3,680 |
| 1999 | — | — | 37 | #2,416 |
| 1998 | — | — | 50 | #1,941 |
| 1997 | — | — | 46 | #1,974 |
| 1996 | — | — | 50 | #1,826 |
| 1995 | — | — | 56 | #1,632 |
| 1994 | — | — | 62 | #1,523 |
| 1993 | — | — | 124 | #969 |
| 1992 | — | — | 249 | #658 |
| 1991 | — | — | 200 | #717 |
| 1990 | — | — | 82 | #1,209 |
| 1989 | — | — | 54 | #1,523 |
| 1988 | — | — | 54 | #1,435 |
| 1987 | — | — | 59 | #1,275 |
| 1986 | — | — | 61 | #1,233 |
| 1985 | — | — | 61 | #1,222 |
| 1984 | — | — | 74 | #1,036 |
| 1983 | — | — | 72 | #1,042 |
| 1982 | — | — | 98 | #903 |
| 1981 | — | — | 133 | #757 |
| 1980 | — | — | 108 | #854 |
| 1979 | — | — | 124 | #778 |
| 1978 | — | — | 118 | #775 |
| 1977 | — | — | 106 | #828 |
| 1976 | — | — | 110 | #792 |
| 1975 | — | — | 137 | #710 |
| 1974 | — | — | 157 | #644 |
| 1973 | — | — | 150 | #650 |
| 1972 | — | — | 151 | #652 |
| 1971 | — | — | 147 | #683 |
| 1970 | — | — | 190 | #589 |
| 1969 | — | — | 192 | #566 |
| 1968 | — | — | 133 | #655 |
| 1967 | — | — | 157 | #598 |
| 1966 | — | — | 170 | #581 |
| 1965 | — | — | 159 | #606 |
| 1964 | — | — | 239 | #507 |
| 1963 | — | — | 209 | #551 |
| 1962 | — | — | 184 | #578 |
| 1961 | — | — | 211 | #544 |
| 1960 | — | — | 199 | #559 |
| 1959 | — | — | 186 | #573 |
| 1958 | — | — | 156 | #616 |
| 1957 | — | — | 146 | #637 |
| 1956 | — | — | 175 | #577 |
| 1955 | — | — | 200 | #516 |
| 1954 | — | — | 268 | #444 |
| 1953 | — | — | 158 | #567 |
| 1952 | — | — | 106 | #674 |
| 1951 | — | — | 109 | #670 |
| 1950 | — | — | 99 | #688 |
| 1949 | — | — | 98 | #689 |
| 1948 | — | — | 80 | #757 |
| 1947 | — | — | 100 | #693 |
| 1946 | — | — | 80 | #732 |
| 1945 | — | — | 63 | #778 |
| 1944 | — | — | 83 | #682 |
| 1943 | — | — | 86 | #694 |
| 1942 | — | — | 101 | #631 |
| 1941 | — | — | 73 | #725 |
| 1940 | — | — | 86 | #648 |
| 1939 | — | — | 60 | #789 |
| 1938 | — | — | 82 | #662 |
| 1937 | — | — | 83 | #651 |
| 1936 | — | — | 59 | #802 |
| 1935 | — | — | 71 | #727 |
| 1934 | — | — | 73 | #718 |
| 1933 | — | — | 72 | #714 |
| 1932 | — | — | 69 | #759 |
| 1931 | — | — | 53 | #880 |
| 1930 | — | — | 54 | #912 |
| 1929 | — | — | 73 | #738 |
| 1928 | — | — | 68 | #789 |
| 1927 | — | — | 80 | #727 |
| 1926 | — | — | 75 | #741 |
| 1925 | — | — | 68 | #805 |
| 1924 | — | — | 78 | #754 |
| 1923 | — | — | 100 | #640 |
| 1922 | — | — | 66 | #844 |
| 1921 | — | — | 77 | #763 |
| 1920 | — | — | 80 | #725 |
| 1919 | — | — | 80 | #697 |
| 1918 | — | — | 59 | #862 |
| 1917 | — | — | 77 | #689 |
| 1916 | — | — | 53 | #865 |
| 1915 | — | — | 68 | #717 |
| 1914 | — | — | 22 | #1,283 |
| 1913 | — | — | 24 | #1,034 |
| 1912 | — | — | 6 | #2,381 |
| 1911 | — | — | 6 | #1,610 |
| 1909 | — | — | 5 | #1,543 |
| 1906 | — | — | 5 | #1,307 |
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).