Garold
Garold is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 656th, in 1946.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 194697 births
- Best rank
- #656in 1946
- Since 1901
- 3,051people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,051 boys have been named Garold in the United States since 1901, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1946, with 97 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 97 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1944, and the 1940s alone account for 23%. It has spent 28 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Garold | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 10 | |
| 1910s | 293 | |
| 1920s | 415 | |
| 1930s | 522 | |
| 1940s | 699 | |
| 1950s | 589 | |
| 1960s | 298 | |
| 1970s | 124 | |
| 1980s | 76 | |
| 1990s | 20 | |
| 2000s | 5 |
In 1946, its biggest year
Garold was the 656th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1946 were James, Robert, John, William and Richard. See all of 1946.
Names that rose and fell with Garold
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lynwoodpeak 1935
- Lawerncepeak 1956
- Lennispeak 1948
- Ferrellpeak 1935
- Glynnpeak 1950
- Thurmondpeak 1948
- Rayburnpeak 1938
- Rayfordpeak 1937
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.