Garret
given name · Latin script
Meaning: humorous nickname for a man with shapely legs, fromjarrett ‘hock’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Garret is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 26K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 637K
- NLNetherlands1 in 640K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 110 (measured from records)
- 1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
12,629 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
humorous nickname for a man with shapely legs, fromjarrett ‘hock’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Garret counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 12,629 | 1 in 26K | 13K | Garret | 110 |
| NL Netherlands | 27 | 1 in 640K | 27 | — | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | 8 | 1 in 637K | 8 | Garret | 10 |
| PL Poland | 5 | 1 in 7.7M | 5 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 5 | 1 in 2M | 5 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 3 | 1 in 2M | 3 | — | — |
12,629 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Garret is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Transferred use of the surname, which is derived from the given names Gerald and Gerard. In Ireland it often represents a direct Anglicization of Gearéid, the Gaelic form of Gerald, and is the name of the former taoiseach, Garret Fitzgerald (b. 1926). Variant: Garrett.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, An attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Irish and English: transferred use of the surname, which is derived from the given names GERALD and GERARD . In Ireland it often represents a direct Anglicization of GEARÓID . Variant: Garrett .
as a word
In enm, alternative form of garite
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)
- Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Morningtonb. 1735IEIrish politician and aristocrat
- Garret D. Wallb. 1783USAmerican politician (1783-1850)
- Garret Hobartb. 1844USvice president of the United States from 1897 to 1899
- Garret FitzGeraldb. 1926IEIrish politician and prime minister (1926–2011)
- Garret Dillahuntb. 1964USAmerican actor
- Garret T. Satob. 1964USAmerican actor (1964-2020)
- Garret Gravesb. 1972USAmerican politician (born 1972)
- Garret Andersonb. 1972USAmerican baseball player (1972–2026)
- Garret Kuschb. 1973CACanadian soccer footballer
- Jacknife Leeb. 2000IEnot in their usual nameIrish music producer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #330,896 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Garret mean, and where does it come from?
- humorous nickname for a man with shapely legs, fromjarrett ‘hock’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Is Garret a male or female name?
- Garret is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Garret have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Garret, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled garret.
- Where is Garret most common?
- Garret is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 26 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Garret?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,629 people named Garret in 2020, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/garretThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Garret”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.