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Garrett

Garrett is the 301st most common surname in the United States, shared by 102,634 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 2,912.

By the numbers

People
102,634
Rank
301st
How common
1 in 2,912
Per 100,000
34.3

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

A medieval English and Irish form of the Germanic given names Gerard and Gerald. Of Old High German origin.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Garrett described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Notable people called Garrett

People named Garrett with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Garrett

Also a first name

Garrett has been given to 136,214 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2000. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.