Garfield
About 5,566 American babies have been named Garfield since 1880, most of them around 1881. In 2025 it ranked 12,008th. About 1,600 Garfields are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 62.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Garfield
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 5,566
- Estimated living today
- 1,600
- Median age today
- 62
- Peak year
- 1881
- Best rank
- 88th
- Rank in 2025
- 12,008th
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Garfields are
born that year still alive today
Of the 5,566 babies given the name since 1880, about 1,600 are alive — 29 in every hundred. Roughly 60 of them are children and 730 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1963 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Also Garfeld, from Old English gār (“spear”) + feld (“field”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Garfields
- Garfield MacDonald (1881–1951)Canadian track and field competitor
- Garfield Darien (born 1987)French hurdling athlete
- Garfield Todd (1908–2002)Prime Minister of South Rhodesia
People named Garfield with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Garfield is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Garfield is most concentrated in Virginia (7.2×), North Carolina (7.1×), Mississippi (5.7×), Georgia (4.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1881
The most popular boys’ names the year Garfield peaked:
Related names
Garfield against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.