Garrett

Where Garrett comes from

A medieval English and Irish form of the Germanic given names Gerard and Gerald. Of Old High German origin.
— Wiktionary's entry for Garrett
  • Germanic
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #505 among boys — 13 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1968
    Garrett Reisman born
    American astronaut
  3. 1984
    Garrett Hedlund born
    American actor
  4. 2000
    Peak, #74
    5,840 babies named Garrett — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2007
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #162.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from the Germanic languages, transferred from an English and an Irish surname, or in Ireland directly from Gerard.
Namesakes
  • Garrett Hedlund · American actor, born 1984
  • Garrett Reisman · American astronaut, born 1968
  • Garrett Hardin · American ecologist, 1915–2003
  • Garrett Wang · American actor, born 1968
  • Garrett Morris · American actor, born 1937

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.