How rare is the name Garret?

12,629 people in the United States have the first name Garret, about 1 in 23,916. It ranks #2,122 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

GARRET

#2,122

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
12,629
About
1 in 23,916
This common or more
78.6%
Who bears it

Of the 12,629 people named Garret, 85.3% reported their origin as White, 4.3% as Hispanic or Latino and 4% as two or more races. Virtually all are male (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Garret peaked in 2000, when 590 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18812025
Peak year
2000
Births that year
590
In 2025*
11 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 13,252 babies have been given the name since 1881. 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.

Garret by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,023. The largest share of babies named Garret, 38.4%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1880s#2,63811
1890s#3,9395
1900s#4,9315
1910s#4,52785
1920s#5,243103
1930s#4,520107
1940s#3,340205
1950s#2,999333
1960s#1,932884
1970s#2,228791
1980s#1,3602,197
1990s#1,0234,492
2000s#1,4703,192
2010s#4,415713
2020s#9,811129
Before 19010.2%
Greatest Generation 1901–271.2%
Silent Generation 1928–451.8%
Baby boom 1946–646.5%
Generation X 1965–8010.6%
Millennials 1981–9638.4%
Generation Z 1997–1237.9%
2013 and later3.6%

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 Garret is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Garret has been most common in Hawaii (2.9×), Utah (2.4×), and Minnesota (2.3×), and least common in Virginia (0.34×).

9,476 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 Garret

#2,120 Ivonne · 12,663#2,121 Kathie · 12,647#2,123 Bette · 12,626#2,124 Erwin · 12,624

Spelled almost the same

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

#485 Garrett · 116,551#9,574 Garet · 1,442#19,703 Garreth · 533#31,394 Garrit · 273#49,173 Garred · 127

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