Nameling

Garrick

Gender
Boy
Origin
Old English
US rank, 2025
#6,799 for boys

Garrick is a boys' name of Old English origin, meaning “spear”. In 2025 it ranked 6,799th for boys in the US (12 babies).

What does Garrick mean?

Old English

“spear”

A male given name from Old English.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Garrick a girl's or a boy's name?

Garrick is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Garrick in the US?

Rank in 2025
#6,799among boys
Babies in 2025
12about 1 in 140,000 boys
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 59% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 12 boys in the US were named Garrick, making it the 6,799th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,137th. Its busiest year was 1989, with 258 boys. It first appears in the records in 1927.

Half of all the boys named Garrick in the US since 1880 were born between 1973 and 1996, the years shaded on the chart below.

1927Busiest: 258 in 19892025
Garrick in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202512#6,799
202414#6,194
20238#8,916
202215#5,870
202117#5,333
202024#4,137
201925#4,110
201834#3,298
201730#3,582
201637#3,110
201535#3,230
201439#2,927
201324#4,062
201242#2,810
201142#2,797
201042#2,825
200945#2,701
200853#2,404
200743#2,764
200670#1,918
200549#2,361
200459#2,020
200375#1,653
200272#1,644
200170#1,655
200079#1,510
199984#1,392
199876#1,462
199779#1,383
199672#1,432
199594#1,190
199489#1,214
1993122#976
1992133#914
1991170#783
1990251#636
1989258#613
198885#1,074
198782#1,053
198695#936
1985110#857
198485#959
1983108#838
1982112#837
1981103#875
1980103#878
197985#960
197894#886
197790#895
1976107#803
1975112#783
1974137#700
1973233#509
1972201#565
1971100#803
197089#854
196970#911
196859#946
196769#862
196647#1,073
196551#1,031
196441#1,198
196337#1,278
196234#1,340
196132#1,405
196018#1,909
195933#1,359
195829#1,445
195724#1,633
195643#1,156
195535#1,272
195435#1,267
195329#1,407
195220#1,700
195114#2,054
195023#1,537
194912#2,224
194817#1,816
194715#1,987
194610#2,402
194511#2,130
19446#3,108
19436#3,229
19420–
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19275#4,208

Names like Garrick

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Names related to Garrick

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Garrick: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/garrick, updated 20 October 2026.