Garrison
Garrison is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 91 births. Its best rank was 566th, in 1999.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 910.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 1999353 births
- Best rank
- #566in 1999
- Since 1912
- 8,415people given the name
The story in the numbers
8,415 boys have been named Garrison in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1999, with 353 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2002, and the 2000s alone account for 29%. It has spent 25 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Garrison | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 63 | |
| 1920s | 88 | |
| 1930s | 83 | |
| 1940s | 109 | |
| 1950s | 180 | |
| 1960s | 168 | |
| 1970s | 244 | |
| 1980s | 638 | |
| 1990s | 2,003 | |
| 2000s | 2,412 | |
| 2010s | 1,807 | |
| 2020s | 620 |
In 1999, its biggest year
Garrison was the 566th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1999 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Nicholas. See all of 1999.
Names that rose and fell with Garrison
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Cameronpeak 2000
- Nikolaspeak 2004
- Brycepeak 2000
- Quintenpeak 2000
- Destinpeak 2001
- Markelpeak 1999
- Mckaypeak 1995
- Nicolaspeak 2003
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.