Garrett

What Garrett means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Garrett yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #269 in 2015, #564 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Garrett?

US: Falling: down from #269 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2000, when 5,840 boys got the name (#74 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 3,247 baby boys in the US in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MT (1.33 per 1,000 boys), NH (1.33 per 1,000 boys), WV (1.14 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Garrett is #564 in the US. It is not in the England & Wales list for 2025.

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Garrett were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Garret11 US
• Garett6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Garrett

Boys

• Drew#553Diminutive of Andrew, meaning “manly”^*
• William#9“will + helmet”^*
• Eric#273Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1970, with 23,571 babies; 1,256 in 2025
• Lance#862Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1970, with 4,160 babies; 279 in 2025
• Carlos#150Spanish and Portuguese form of Charles, meaning “free man”^*
• Derrick#850Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #384 in 2015, #850 in 2025

For a sister

• Alyssa#453“a plant of the genus Alyssum”^*
• Karla#799Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1964, with 2,060 babies; 340 in 2025
• Alicia#460Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1984, with 7,820 babies; 672 in 2025
• Allison#103Form of Elon, meaning “oak tree”^*
• Abby#731Diminutive of Abigail, meaning “my Father's joy”^*
• Alison#476“of noble kind”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Germanic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Garrett’s. Rank is US 2025.