Garth
#8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
- Peak · boys
- 1954 · 268 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 9,666since 1906
Garth over time
Rank among boys' names. Garth has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,910 | 8 |
| 2024 | #5,241 | 18 |
| 2023 | #4,610 | 22 |
| 2022 | #4,701 | 21 |
| 2021 | #7,089 | 11 |
| 2020 | #4,698 | 20 |
| 2019 | #5,555 | 16 |
| 2018 | #5,770 | 15 |
| 2017 | #5,788 | 15 |
| 2016 | #6,349 | 13 |
| 2015 | #4,711 | 20 |
| 2014 | #5,485 | 16 |
| 2013 | #6,603 | 12 |
| 2012 | #8,864 | 8 |
| 2011 | #9,600 | 7 |
| 2010 | #5,478 | 16 |
| 2009 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #4,901 | 19 |
| 2007 | #10,921 | 6 |
| 2006 | #7,998 | 9 |
| 2005 | #5,578 | 14 |
| 2004 | #5,007 | 16 |
| 2003 | #5,035 | 15 |
| 2002 | #4,502 | 17 |
| 2001 | #2,988 | 30 |
| 2000 | #3,640 | 22 |
| 1999 | #2,398 | 37 |
| 1998 | #1,931 | 50 |
| 1997 | #1,964 | 46 |
| 1996 | #1,817 | 50 |
| 1995 | #1,623 | 56 |
| 1994 | #1,516 | 62 |
| 1993 | #965 | 124 |
| 1992 | #658 | 249 |
| 1991 | #717 | 200 |
| 1990 | #1,201 | 82 |
| 1989 | #1,516 | 54 |
| 1988 | #1,427 | 54 |
| 1987 | #1,272 | 59 |
| 1986 | #1,227 | 61 |
| 1985 | #1,214 | 61 |
| 1984 | #1,033 | 74 |
| 1983 | #1,040 | 72 |
| 1982 | #903 | 98 |
| 1981 | #757 | 133 |
| 1980 | #850 | 108 |
| 1979 | #777 | 124 |
| 1978 | #774 | 118 |
| 1977 | #828 | 106 |
| 1976 | #790 | 110 |
| 1975 | #707 | 137 |
| 1974 | #644 | 157 |
| 1973 | #648 | 150 |
| 1972 | #651 | 151 |
| 1971 | #683 | 147 |
| 1970 | #588 | 190 |
| 1969 | #566 | 192 |
| 1968 | #655 | 133 |
| 1967 | #598 | 157 |
| 1966 | #579 | 170 |
| 1965 | #605 | 159 |
| 1964 | #507 | 239 |
| 1963 | #550 | 209 |
| 1962 | #578 | 184 |
| 1961 | #544 | 211 |
| 1960 | #559 | 199 |
| 1959 | #572 | 186 |
| 1958 | #615 | 156 |
| 1957 | #637 | 146 |
| 1956 | #576 | 175 |
| 1955 | #516 | 200 |
| 1954 | #444 | 268 |
| 1953 | #567 | 158 |
| 1952 | #673 | 106 |
| 1951 | #668 | 109 |
| 1950 | #685 | 99 |
| 1949 | #689 | 98 |
| 1948 | #756 | 80 |
| 1947 | #692 | 100 |
| 1946 | #729 | 80 |
| 1945 | #775 | 63 |
| 1944 | #679 | 83 |
| 1943 | #692 | 86 |
| 1942 | #629 | 101 |
| 1941 | #723 | 73 |
| 1940 | #646 | 86 |
| 1939 | #784 | 60 |
| 1938 | #660 | 82 |
| 1937 | #650 | 83 |
| 1936 | #797 | 59 |
| 1935 | #725 | 71 |
| 1934 | #716 | 73 |
| 1933 | #710 | 72 |
| 1932 | #756 | 69 |
| 1931 | #879 | 53 |
| 1930 | #909 | 54 |
| 1929 | #734 | 73 |
| 1928 | #786 | 68 |
| 1927 | #726 | 80 |
| 1926 | #737 | 75 |
| 1925 | #801 | 68 |
| 1924 | #752 | 78 |
| 1923 | #640 | 100 |
| 1922 | #840 | 66 |
| 1921 | #760 | 77 |
| 1920 | #724 | 80 |
| 1919 | #695 | 80 |
| 1918 | #855 | 59 |
| 1917 | #687 | 77 |
| 1916 | #864 | 53 |
| 1915 | #715 | 68 |
| 1914 | #1,260 | 22 |
| 1913 | #1,023 | 24 |
| 1912 | #2,269 | 6 |
| 1911 | #1,537 | 6 |
| 1910 | — | |
| 1909 | #1,440 | 5 |
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| 1906 | #1,253 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Garth! It came in at #1,253, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1906–1910, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Garth is popular in 1965
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Utah#214 · 1 in 1,264
- Oregon#217 · 1 in 1,710
- Washington#233 · 1 in 2,039
- Minnesota#344 · 1 in 6,741
- Massachusetts#362 · 1 in 10,209
Best ever in a state: #79 in Utah, 1923.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Utah | #214 | 8 | 1 in 1,264 |
| Oregon | #217 | 9 | 1 in 1,710 |
| Washington | #233 | 12 | 1 in 2,039 |
| Minnesota | #344 | 5 | 1 in 6,741 |
| Massachusetts | #362 | 5 | 1 in 10,209 |
| Indiana | #387 | 7 | 1 in 6,751 |
| Michigan | #445 | 9 | 1 in 8,867 |
| California | #458 | 30 | 1 in 5,829 |
| New Jersey | #503 | 5 | 1 in 11,660 |
| Pennsylvania | #515 | 7 | 1 in 14,346 |
| Ohio | #557 | 6 | 1 in 15,701 |
| Florida | #594 | 5 | 1 in 9,907 |
| New York | #733 | 8 | 1 in 20,434 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Garth
- 3,669 spots since 2024 (#5,241 → #8,910)
- 4,212 spots since 2020 (#4,698 → #8,910)
- 4,199 spots since 2015 (#4,711 → #8,910)
- Biggest jump: 545 spots in 1915 (#1,260 → #715)
- Biggest drop: 551 spots in 1994 (#965 → #1,516)
- Debuted 1906
- Peaked 1954 at #444 (268 births)
- Births halved by 1968, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 71 yrs · run 1915–1982
- Highest: 1 in 7,607 boys born in 1954 were named Garth (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 213,509 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 19.2% of all boys named Garth (1,853) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 10 | #1,253 (1906) | #1,347 |
| 1910s | 395 | #687 (1917) | #1,101 |
| 1920s | 765 | #640 (1923) | #750 |
| 1930s | 676 | #650 (1937) | #759 |
| 1940s | 850 | #629 (1942) | #701 |
| 1950s | 1,603 | #444 (1954) | #595 |
| 1960s | 1,853 | #507 (1964) | #574 |
| 1970s | 1,390 | #588 (1970) | #709 |
| 1980s | 774 | #757 (1981) | #1,124 |
| 1990s | 956 | #658 (1992) | #1,479 |
| 2000s | 156 | #2,988 (2001) | #5,956 |
| 2010s | 138 | #4,711 (2015) | #6,420 |
| 2020s | 100 | #4,610 (2023) | #5,875 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Garth in 1965
Top boys' names in 1965
More about 1965
boys
1,860,143 boys got a published name in 1965; 1 in 11,699 of them was named Garth, which outranked 86.3% of the 4,425 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).