Garfield
Garfield is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 88th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1881147 births
- Best rank
- #88in 1881
- Since 1880
- 5,561people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,561 boys have been named Garfield in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1881, with 147 births — 0.15% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 147 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1929, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 71 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 1 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Garfield | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 575 | |
| 1890s | 203 | |
| 1900s | 287 | |
| 1910s | 819 | |
| 1920s | 932 | |
| 1930s | 611 | |
| 1940s | 616 | |
| 1950s | 509 | |
| 1960s | 333 | |
| 1970s | 218 | |
| 1980s | 159 | |
| 1990s | 163 | |
| 2000s | 102 | |
| 2010s | 29 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1881, its biggest year
Garfield was the 88th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1881 were John, William, James, George and Charles. See all of 1881.
Names that rose and fell with Garfield
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Winfieldpeak 1916
- Isompeak 1920
- Washpeak 1921
- Bertpeak 1918
- Archpeak 1880
- Olepeak 1881
- Hirampeak 1920
- Chaspeak 1915
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.