Garland

Where Garland comes from

English surname, from the noun garland. Also derived from Garland in Devon, from an ancestor of the noun gore (“triangular piece of land”) + land.
— Wiktionary's entry for Garland
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #571 among boys — 11 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1905
    Peak, #251
    60 babies named Garland — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1924
    Garland T. Byrd born
    American politician
  4. 1943
    Garland Jeffreys born
    American musician
  5. 1998
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,711.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Garland Jeffreys · American musician, born 1943
  • Garland T. Byrd · American politician, 1924–1997
  • Garland Wilson · American musician, 1909–1954
  • Garland E. Allen · American historian and biographer, 1936–2023
  • Garland O'Shields · American basketball player, 1921–2001

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.