Garrett

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Garrett: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Garrett: Recorded since 1964, its highest recorded position is #66, and it stood at #631 in 2021.

3registrars recorded it
61times a registrar ranked it
58years from first to last
#66highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2019

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1168
1998	#2901
1999	#2425
2000	#1552
2001	#1746
2002	#3225
2003	#3467
2004	#2578
2005	#3208
2007	#3095
2008	#3158
2009	#3744
2010	#3865
2013	#3315
2016	#4023
2019	#3411

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in 43 of the 58 years from 1964 to 2021.

In 2010: #611 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #3865 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1964–2021 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1964
First recorded at #78 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1964 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded1964–2021
Highest recorded position: #66 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 1966 (recorded 1964–2021).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2021
Most recently recorded at #631 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2021.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Garrett appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Boys, which has ranked it in 43 years beginning in 1964, and has registered 1,633 births with the name.

Garrett across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Garrett's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#78 (1964)	#66 (1966)	#631 (2021)	43 of 58	1,633 (1964–2021)	112 (1973)
England and Wales · Boys	#1168 (1996)	#1168 (1996)	#3411 (2019)	16 of 24	80 (1996–2019)	11 (1996)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#227 (1997)	#227 (1997)	#357 (2007)	2 of 11	8 (1997–2007)	5 (1997)

Where the highest position is not the biggest year

Inside a single year a registrar's ranking is its birth counts put in order, so the top of a list is always the name given to the most babies that year. Across years the two separate, because the number of births and the number of names sharing them both change.

In Republic of Ireland · Boys the name reached its highest position, #66, in 1966, when 78 births were registered with it. More were registered in 1973 — 112 — in a year it ranked #71.

Garrett by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Garrett in Republic of Ireland · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	410	6 of 10	68
1970sbusiest	796	10 of 10	80
1980s	290	10 of 10	29
1990s	112	10 of 10	11
2000s	14	4 of 10	4
2010s	7	2 of 10	4
2020s	4	1 of 10	4

Across Republic of Ireland · Boys, the 1970s were its busiest decade, averaging 80 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1974 and 1975, when recorded births fell by 36, from 93 to 57.

See the names Republic of Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Garrett appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1964 to 2021. Highest recorded position: #66 in Republic of Ireland in 1966.

Garrett's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2019	England and Wales	male	#3411	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4023	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3315	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3865	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3744	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3158	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3095	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3208	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2578	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1746	7	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1552	8	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2425	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2901	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1168	11	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	male	#357	3	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	male	#227	5	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#631	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#730	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#611	4	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#698	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#493	4	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#439	4	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#451	3	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	male	#241	7	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	male	#369	3	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	male	#286	6	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	male	#223	10	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	male	#184	14	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	male	#198	10	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	male	#151	23	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	male	#210	9	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	male	#205	9	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	male	#157	21	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	male	#165	16	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	male	#160	17	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	male	#166	16	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	male	#153	19	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	male	#151	22	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	male	#126	30	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	male	#145	24	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	male	#129	33	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	male	#101	59	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	male	#106	54	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	male	#101	60	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	male	#87	75	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	male	#87	76	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	male	#103	58	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	male	#103	57	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	male	#75	93	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	male	#71	112	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	male	#85	84	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	male	#84	85	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	male	#71	96	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	male	#71	91	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	male	#79	65	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	male	#78	66	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	male	#66	78	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	male	#73	63	High	Verified
1964	Republic of Ireland	male	#78	47	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1964 and 2021, ranked in 52 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #66, first reached in 1966.

It held a top-100 place in 13 years, 11 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 112 births, registered in Republic of Ireland in 1973.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 33 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Garreth · #112, 39y
Garry · #15, 71y
Garth · #240, 15y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Agnieszka · #64, 47y
Jocelyn · #69, 48y
Caitriona · #70, 56y
Nathalie · #60, 57y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Fergus · #66, 62y
Leonardo · #66, 40y
Cherie · #67, 38y
Agnieszka · #64, 47y

Garrett was ranked #66 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 1966. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Garrett and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Garrett without appearing here.

Garrett moved ahead of

Kelly Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3315 and #2660 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #3411 and #4702.
Maddison Compare
In 2006 they stood at #3208 and #3208 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #3095 and #4333.
Arne Compare
In 2018 they stood at #4023 and #4023 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #3411 and #3937.
Garry Compare
In 2018 they stood at #4023 and #3079 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #3411 and #3937.

Moved ahead of Garrett

Arlo Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1746 and #1949 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #3225 and #848.
Leif Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3158 and #3687 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #3744 and #1568.
Magnus Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1168 and #1337 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #2901 and #850.
Ollie Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1168 and #1458 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #2901 and #924.

Moved the opposite way to Garrett

Alexander Compare
Between 1964 and 2021 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Garrett went from #78 to #631 while Alexander went from #116 to #43.
Benjamin Compare
Between 1964 and 2021 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Garrett went from #78 to #631 while Benjamin went from #139 to #66.
Conor Compare
Between 1964 and 2021 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Garrett went from #78 to #631 while Conor went from #56 to #4.
Daniel Compare
Between 1964 and 2021 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Garrett went from #78 to #631 while Daniel went from #19 to #8.

Moved the same way as Garrett

Adrian Compare
Between 1964 and 2021 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Garrett went from #78 to #631 and Adrian from #65 to #257.
Alfred Compare
Between 1964 and 2021 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Garrett went from #78 to #631 and Alfred from #134 to #336.
Bruce Compare
Between 1964 and 2021 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Garrett went from #78 to #631 and Bruce from #204 to #414.
Denis Compare
Between 1964 and 2021 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Garrett went from #78 to #631 and Denis from #21 to #182.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1964 to 2021. Highest recorded position: #66 in Republic of Ireland in 1966. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Garrett

Garrett at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Garrett across 3 official records

Where the highest position is not the biggest year

Garrett by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Garrett appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Also first recorded in the 1960s

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Garrett and the names beside it

Garrett moved ahead of

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Garrett at a glance

Garrett across 3 official records

Where the highest position is not the biggest year

Garrett by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Garrett appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Garrett

Garrett and the names beside it

Garrett moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Garrett

Moved the opposite way to Garrett

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