Garth
Garth is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 18 births. Its best rank was 444th, in 1954.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 180.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1954268 births
- Best rank
- #444in 1954
- Since 1906
- 9,659people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,659 boys have been named Garth in the United States since 1906, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1954, with 268 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1962, and the 1960s alone account for 19%. It has spent 71 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Garth | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 10 | |
| 1910s | 395 | |
| 1920s | 765 | |
| 1930s | 676 | |
| 1940s | 850 | |
| 1950s | 1,603 | |
| 1960s | 1,854 | |
| 1970s | 1,390 | |
| 1980s | 774 | |
| 1990s | 956 | |
| 2000s | 156 | |
| 2010s | 138 | |
| 2020s | 92 |
In 1954, its biggest year
Garth was the 444th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1954 were Michael, Robert, James, John and David. See all of 1954.
Names that rose and fell with Garth
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lennardpeak 1949
- Rodericpeak 1965
- Doranpeak 1954
- Kiethpeak 1964
- Douglasspeak 1970
- Parnellpeak 1963
- Darelpeak 1956
- Kenithpeak 1963
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.