girls:
5 births since 1956
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
4.3k births since 1916
#1853 (60th percentile)
overall:
4.3k births since 1916
#4182 (46th percentile)
The name Gareth is the #4,182 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,297 recorded births since 1916. This represents the 46.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 46.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,853 (59.6% percentile) for all time with 4,292 births since 1916. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1956.
Gareth first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1916 (1916 for boys and 1956 for girls). Birth data for Gareth is available in 106 out of the 108 years between 1916 and 2023 (106 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Gareth has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Gareth reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 10.8% percentile (ranked #822) with 51 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 51 births per million (ranked 10.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Gareth ranks #869 for boys (4.6% percentile) with 26 births per million, which is 50.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Gareth reached its peak popularity in 1956, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #747) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 1956, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1956.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gareth".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Gareth. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.8% confident that Gareth is pronounced as GEH-ruhth, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is GEH-rihth, at 43.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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