Garrett
Garrett is a boy's name that peaked in 2000, when it was the 74th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 564th. About 128,000 Garretts are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 28.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Garrett boys named Garrett
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 136,214
- Estimated living today
- 128,000
- Median age today
- 28
- Peak year
- 2000
- Best rank
- 74th
- Rank in 2025
- 564th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 452 / 135,762
How old the living Garretts are
born that year still alive today
Of the 136,214 babies given the name since 1880, about 128,000 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 23,000 of them are children and 2,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1997 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 Germanic languages
A medieval English and Irish form of the Germanic given names Gerard and Gerald. Of Old High German origin.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Garretts
- Garrett Hedlund (born 1984)American actor
- Garrett Reisman (born 1968)American astronaut
- Garrett Hardin (1915–2003)American ecologist
- Garrett Clayton (born 1991)American actor, singer and dancer
- Garrett Wang (born 1968)American actor
- Garrett Birkhoff (1911–1996)American mathematician
- Garrett Morris (born 1937)American actor
- Garrett Temple (born 1986)American basketball player
People named Garrett with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Garrett is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Garrett is most concentrated in Alaska (2.5×), Wyoming (2.3×), Utah (2.0×), Idaho (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2000
The most popular boys’ names the year Garrett peaked:
Garrett elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland boys | Garrett | 1,633 | 71st |
| England and Wales boys | Garrett | 80 | 1,168th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Garrett | 8 | 227th |
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
Garrett 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.