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Garnell vs Garret

American parents have registered 13,252 Garrets since 1880, against 505 Garnells. Garret is still ahead, with 11 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Garnell against Garret, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Garnell Garret

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 117 years in which either name was published, Garret for 107 years and Garnell for 10 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.

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

Side by side

  Garnell Garret
Total US births 50513,252
Most in one year 20590
Babies in 2025 under 511
Estimated living today 26012,000
Median age today 6330
Peak year 19642000
Best rank 2,114th boys420th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked7,194th
First recorded 19121881
Girls / boys 99 / 4065 / 13,247

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 Garnells alive today are over 63; half the Garrets are over 30. That is 33 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Garnell and Garret.