Garland
The boy's name Garland has been in the national records since 1880, with 24,712 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 6,803rd. About 9,700 Garlands are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 64.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Garland boys named Garland
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 24,712
- Estimated living today
- 9,700
- Median age today
- 64
- Peak year
- 1922
- Best rank
- 258th
- Rank in 2025
- 6,803rd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 855 / 23,857
How old the living Garlands are
born that year still alive today
Of the 24,712 babies given the name since 1880, about 9,700 are alive — 39 in every hundred. Roughly 370 of them are children and 4,800 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1961 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
English surname, from the noun garland. Also derived from Garland in Devon, from an ancestor of the noun gore (“triangular piece of land”) + land.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Garlands
- Garland Jeffreys (born 1943)American musician
People named Garland with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Garland is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Garland is most concentrated in Virginia (6.7×), West Virginia (5.2×), Arkansas (5.0×), North Carolina (4.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1922
The most popular boys’ names the year Garland peaked:
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Garland against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.