Garret
About 13,252 American babies have been named Garret since 1881, most of them around 2000. In 2025 it ranked 7,194th. About 12,000 Garrets are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 30.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Garret boys named Garret
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 13,252
- Estimated living today
- 12,000
- Median age today
- 30
- Peak year
- 2000
- Best rank
- 420th
- Rank in 2025
- 7,194th
- First recorded
- 1881
- Girls / boys
- 5 / 13,247
How old the living Garrets are
born that year still alive today
Of the 13,252 babies given the name since 1881, about 12,000 are alive — 92 in every hundred. Roughly 1,200 of them are children and 380 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1995 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
Variant of Garrett.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Garrets
- Garret Hobart (1844–1899)vice president of the United States from 1897 to 1899
- Garret FitzGerald (1926–2011)Irish politician and prime minister
- Garret Dillahunt (born 1964)American actor
- Garret Graves (born 1972)American politician
People named Garret with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Garret is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Garret is most concentrated in Hawaii (2.9×), Utah (2.4×), Minnesota (2.3×), Washington (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2000
The most popular boys’ names the year Garret peaked:
Garret elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland boys | Garret | 412 | 121st |
| England and Wales boys | Garret | 6 | 3,651st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Garret against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.