Garth
About 9,666 American babies have been named Garth since 1906, most of them around 1954. In 2025 it ranked 8,910th. About 6,400 Garths are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 55.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Garth
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 9,666
- Estimated living today
- 6,400
- Median age today
- 55
- Peak year
- 1954
- Best rank
- 444th
- Rank in 2025
- 8,910th
- First recorded
- 1906
How old the living Garths are
born that year still alive today
Of the 9,666 babies given the name since 1906, about 6,400 are alive — 66 in every hundred. Roughly 260 of them are children and 1,700 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1970 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 Welsh
Welsh garth probably has its influence on Welsh place names.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Garths
- Garth Brooks (born 1962)American country music singer and songwriter
- Garth Hudson (1937–2025)Canadian multi-instrumentalist
- Garth Ennis (born 1970)British comics writer
- Garth Nix (born 1963)Australian fantasy writer
- Garth Manton (1929–2024)Australian rower
- Garth Davis (born 1974)Australian film and television director
- Garth Jennings (born 1972)English filmmaker
- Garth Crooks (born 1958)English footballer
People named Garth with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Garth is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Garth is most concentrated in Utah (14.5×), Idaho (11.2×), Oregon (3.6×), Washington (3.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1954
The most popular boys’ names the year Garth peaked:
Garth elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Garth | 51 | 1,235th |
| Ireland boys | Garth | 12 | 326th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Garth | 7 | 240th |
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.
Garth among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Garth | 5 | 7 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Garth 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.