girls:
179 births since 1934
#5537 (3rd percentile)
boys:
47.6k births since 1880
#519 (89th percentile)
overall:
47.8k births since 1880
#1106 (86th percentile)
The name Garry is the #1,106 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 47,812 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 85.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 85.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #519 (88.7% percentile) for all time with 47,633 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,537 (3.1% percentile) for all time with 179 births since 1934.
Garry has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1934 for girls). Birth data for Garry is available in 125 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (125 years for boys and 26 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 Garry has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Garry reached its peak popularity in 1955, achieving the 78.5% percentile (ranked #138) with 1,049 births per million. The name was most common in 1954, with 1,072 births per million (ranked 77.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1957, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Garry ranks #903 for boys (0.9% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 0.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Garry reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #761) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1940, with 8 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1984.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Garry".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Gary. View all variations of Gary.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Garry", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 12 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Gary" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Gary..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Garry. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 61.4% confident that Garry is pronounced as GEH-ree, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is GA-ree, at 38.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like G EH1 R IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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