Garland vs Garth

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Garland Garth

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Garland for 128 years and Garth for 18 years. The lead changed hands 24 times.

• 1880–1977 Garland ahead, apart from 2 short spells
• 1978–1981 Garth ahead
• 1982–1990 Garland ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1991–1993 Garth ahead
• 1999–2019 Garland ahead, apart from 2 short spells

15 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Garlands alive today are over 64; half the Garths are over 55. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Garland Virginia (6.7×), West Virginia (5.2×), Arkansas (5.0×)
• Garth Utah (14.5×), Idaho (11.2×), Oregon (3.6×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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