Garvin
Garvin is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 816th, in 1902.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 192152 births
- Best rank
- #816in 1902
- Since 1894
- 2,425people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,425 boys have been named Garvin in the United States since 1894, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 52 births.
The name has all but left use: 6 births in 2024, against 52 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1949, and the 1920s alone account for 15%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Garvin | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1900s | 27 | |
| 1910s | 241 | |
| 1920s | 364 | |
| 1930s | 283 | |
| 1940s | 294 | |
| 1950s | 264 | |
| 1960s | 240 | |
| 1970s | 144 | |
| 1980s | 150 | |
| 1990s | 150 | |
| 2000s | 140 | |
| 2010s | 112 | |
| 2020s | 11 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Garvin was the 976th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1921 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Garvin
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Salvatorepeak 1927
- Weltonpeak 1924
- Franklynpeak 1933
- Wymanpeak 1922
- Reynoldpeak 1922
- Regispeak 1917
- Malvinpeak 1921
- Armandpeak 1918
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.