girls:
5 births since 1993
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
8.3k births since 1912
#1289 (72nd percentile)
overall:
8.3k births since 1912
#2958 (62nd percentile)
The name Garrison is the #2,958 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,324 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 61.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 61.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,289 (71.9% percentile) for all time with 8,319 births since 1912. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1993.
Garrison first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for boys and 1993 for girls). Birth data for Garrison is available in 109 out of the 112 years between 1912 and 2023 (109 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 Garrison has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Garrison reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 37.7% percentile (ranked #502) with 173 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 173 births per million (ranked 37.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Garrison ranks #812 for boys (10.9% percentile) with 57 births per million, which is 32.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Garrison reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #865) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1993.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Garrison".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Garrison. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 25.6% confident that Garrison is pronounced as GA-rih-suhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is GEH-rih-suhn, at 23.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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