girls:
5 births since 1982
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
13.2k births since 1881
#1012 (78th percentile)
overall:
13.2k births since 1881
#2281 (71st percentile)
The name Garret is the #2,281 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 13,228 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 70.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 70.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,012 (77.9% percentile) for all time with 13,223 births since 1881. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1982.
Garret first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for boys and 1982 for girls). Birth data for Garret is available in 115 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023 (115 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 Garret has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 100.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Garret reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 51.8% percentile (ranked #393) with 283 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 283 births per million (ranked 51.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2000, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Garret ranks #896 for boys (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 3.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Garret reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #793) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1982.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Garret".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Garret", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 17 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Garrett" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Garrett..
Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Garret. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 30.4% confident that Garret is pronounced as GEH-riht, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is GA-ruht, at 30.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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