Garth

maleStatistical record

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

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

3registrars recorded it
16times a registrar ranked it
33years from first to last
#240highest recorded position

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2010

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1235
1997	#1761
1999	#2097
2000	#2501
2001	#2587
2002	#2636
2004	#3009
2005	#2418
2008	#3158
2010	#4678

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 4 of the 18 years from 1978 to 1995.

In 1999: #277 among boys in Northern Ireland, #2097 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1978–2010 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1978
First recorded at #326 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1978 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded1998–1999
Highest recorded position: #240 among boys in Northern Ireland, in 1998 (recorded 1998–1999).
Northern Ireland · Boys
Most recent2010
Most recently recorded at #4678 among boys in England and Wales, in 2010.
England and Wales · Boys

Garth appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 10 ranked years and 51 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Boys, from 1978.

Garth 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.

Garth'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	#326 (1978)	#322 (1981)	#334 (1995)	4 of 18	12 (1978–1995)	3 (1978)
England and Wales · Boys	#1235 (1996)	#1235 (1996)	#4678 (2010)	10 of 15	51 (1996–2010)	10 (1996)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#240 (1998)	#240 (1998)	#277 (1999)	2 of 2	7 (1998–1999)	4 (1998)

Garth by decade in England and Wales · 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 Garth in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	21	3 of 10	7
2000sbusiest	27	6 of 10	5
2010s	3	1 of 10	3

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 5 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1978 to 2010. Highest recorded position: #240 in Northern Ireland in 1998.

Garth'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
2010	England and Wales	male	#4678	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3158	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2418	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3009	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2636	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2587	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2501	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2097	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1761	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1235	10	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	male	#277	3	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	male	#240	4	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	male	#334	3	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	male	#342	3	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	male	#322	3	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	male	#326	3	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.

Where Garth is officially recorded

3 official registrars have recorded Garth, between 1978 and 2010, in 15 of those 33 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Republic of Ireland	1978–1995	4	#322 in 1981
England and Wales	1996–2010	10	#1235 in 1996
Northern Ireland	1998–1999	2	#240 in 1998

Its high point came 17 years earlier in Republic of Ireland (1981) than in Northern Ireland (1998).

No registrar recorded it for 12 years after 1981; it appears again in 1994.

Garth was ranked #240 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 1998. 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.

Aran#240
Billy#240
Blain#240
Blaine#240
Aiden#272
Allister#272
Anton#272
Antony#272

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
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 1978 to 2010. Highest recorded position: #240 in Northern Ireland in 1998. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Garth

Garth at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Garth across 3 official records

Garth by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Popularity data

Where Garth is officially recorded

Names published alongside Garth

Garth at a glance

Garth across 3 official records

Garth by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Names published alongside Garth