How rare is the name Gareth?

4,779 people in the United States have the first name Gareth, about 1 in 63,200. It ranks #4,056 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

GARETH

#4,056

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,779
About
1 in 63,200
This common or more
83.5%
Who bears it

Of the 4,779 people named Gareth, 77.2% reported their origin as White, 7% as Hispanic or Latino and 6.1% as Black. 98.6% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Gareth peaked in 2016, when 104 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19162025
Peak year
2016
Births that year
104
In 2025*
46 ▼56%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 4,394 babies have been given the name since 1916. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Gareth by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1940s, when it ranked #2,755. The largest share of babies named Gareth, 23.5%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1910s#9,47512
1920s#4,074156
1930s#3,234186
1940s#2,755292
1950s#3,788217
1960s#3,941241
1970s#3,746341
1980s#3,108577
1990s#3,369705
2000s#4,471658
2010s#4,385720
2020s#5,768289
Greatest Generation 1901–273.2%
Silent Generation 1928–458.9%
Baby boom 1946–6410.2%
Generation X 1965–8011.7%
Millennials 1981–9622.8%
Generation Z 1997–1223.5%
2013 and later19.6%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Gareth is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Gareth has been most common in California (3.7×), Texas (2.8×), and Florida (2.1×), and least common in Pennsylvania (0.69×).

1,009 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Gareth

#4,054 Alessia · 4,782#4,055 Coty · 4,781#4,057 Robinson · 4,778#4,058 Leidy · 4,777

Spelled almost the same

4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Gareth, most common first.

#2,916 Garth · 7,806#4,227 Garett · 4,501#9,574 Garet · 1,442#19,703 Garreth · 533

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