Garrick
Where Garrick comes from
From Old English *Gārrīċ (from gār (“spear”) + rīċ), from Proto-Germanic *Gaizarīks. Doublet of Gaiseric.
- Old English
- 2 syllables
Along the way
- 1927First appearance#4,210 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
- 1939Garrick Hagon bornEnglish actor
- 1948Garrick Ohlsson bornAmerican pianist
- 1973Peak, #509233 babies named Garrick — more than any year before or since.
- 1975The fadeThe first year with half the peak's births — down to #783.
In the dictionary
- A male given name from Old English.
Namesakes
- Garrick Ohlsson · American pianist, born 1948
- Garrick Hagon · English actor, born 1939
- Garrick Mallery · American ethnologist, 1831–1894
- Garrick Utley · American newsreader, 1939–2014
- Garrick Agnew · Australian swimmer, British Empire Games gold medallist, businessman, 1930–1987
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.