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Garret vs Garron

American parents have registered 13,252 Garrets since 1880, against 836 Garrons. Garret is still ahead, with 11 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Garret Garron

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

Garret has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1881 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2020, when Garret had 27 and Garron had 9.

Side by side

  Garret Garron
Total US births 13,252836
Most in one year 59036
Babies in 2025 11under 5
Estimated living today 12,000790
Median age today 3031
Peak year 20002004
Best rank 420th boys2,843rd boys
Rank in 2025 7,194thunranked
First recorded 18811940
Girls / boys 5 / 13,2470 / 836

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.

Where each one is strongest

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

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