Garratt

surname · Latin script

Meaning: From Gerard or Gerald, Norman names of Germanic origin meaning literally ‘spear-brave/strong’ or ‘spear-rule’

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ˈɡɛɹət/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Garratt is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom
  • AUAustralia
  • USUnited States

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From Gerard or Gerald, Norman names of Germanic origin meaning literally ‘spear-brave/strong’ or ‘spear-rule’.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

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Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Garratt is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A steam locomotive that is articulated in three parts, with a boiler mounted on the centre frame, and two steam engines mounted on separate frames, one on each end of the boiler.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Herbert William Garratt, b. 1864George Garratt, b. 1882Geoffrey Garratt, b. 1888Nick Garratt, b. 1947Joy Garratt, b. 1952Owen Garratt, b. 1968Martin Garratt, b. 1980Ben Garratt, b. 1994Tyler Garratt, b. 1996

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Garratt,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 20 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Garratt
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020604#39,333
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000573#36,761
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010489#44,034
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—24#75,179
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—24#73,510
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—20#25,540
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—14#50,168
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20249#65,843
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20268—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—8#150,907
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20264—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—4#222,682

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Garratt mean, and where does it come from?
From Gerard or Gerald, Norman names of Germanic origin meaning literally ‘spear-brave/strong’ or ‘spear-rule’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
How do you pronounce Garratt?
A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɛɹət/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Garratt have the most bearers?
Garratt is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Garratt”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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