Garrison

At the 2020 census, 48,292 Americans bore the surname Garrison — 689th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 6,189.

By the numbers

People: 48,292
Rank: 689th
How common: 1 in 6,189
Per 100,000: 16.2

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 79.6%
Black, not Hispanic 10.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879)American journalist and abolitionist
Rob Garrison (1960–2019)American actor
Zina Garrison (born 1963)American tennis player
Jim Garrison (1921–1992)American district attorney
Lane Garrison (born 1980)American actor
Jimmy Garrison (1934–1976)American double bassist
David Garrison (born 1952)American actor
John Garrison (1909–1988)American ice hockey player

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

Surnames like Garrison

Also a first name

Garrison has been given to 8,514 American babies as a first name since 1912, peaking in 1999. 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.