How Many People Are Named Garry?

32,023

people named Garry are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 10,673 people in the US has this name

Based on 47,849 babies named Garry in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,225

💎 Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#521

See the top 100

Peak Year

1954

2,229 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: GER-ee, GAR-ee
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Variant of GARY.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Garry in English. Counting Garry and these spellings together, about 634,056 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

GeroGervasGervasiusGeirrBRITISHGazGareyGaryGervaseJarvisJervis

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
0.4%
Male
99.6%

Almost all of the babies given the name Garry (99.6%) were boys.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Garry alive today is about 63 years old, and 70% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 56 and 73 in 2025.

Under 30 1,453
4.5%
30 to 59 8,116
25.3%
60 and over 22,454
70.1%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Garry first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1954, to 2,229 babies. In 2025, 15 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Garry has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #138, in 1954. In 2025 it ranked #5,946.

Boys
Rank in 2025#5,946
Best rank#138 (1954)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#156 in the 1950s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Garry alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Garry were born in Texas than in any other state: about 1,985 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Garry was given 2.5 times as often in Kentucky, 2.1 times in Arkansas and 1.7 times in Indiana.

Texas 1,985
Ohio 1,934
California 1,869
New York 1,809
North Carolina 1,477
Pennsylvania 1,439
Kentucky 1,413
Michigan 1,395
Indiana 1,312
Illinois 1,266
Tennessee 1,100
Missouri 1,081
Virginia 952
Florida 836
Georgia 816
New Jersey 779
Alabama 757
Arkansas 679
Maryland 572
Oklahoma 537
Iowa 461
West Virginia 438
Washington 388
Mississippi 385
Kansas 374
Massachusetts 373
Louisiana 373
Minnesota 280
Wisconsin 270
Colorado 240
South Carolina 213
Nebraska 206
Oregon 203
Arizona 148
Connecticut 140
District of Columbia 131
Utah 115
New Mexico 106
Idaho 81
South Dakota 71
North Dakota 64
Maine 58
Montana 46
Rhode Island 29
Delaware 26
Vermont 24
New Hampshire 22
Hawaii 7
Nevada 3
Wyoming 3

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