Garrick
Masculine · “from the scrubland”
A garrigue is a real landscape: the low, aromatic scrub of thyme, rosemary and dwarf oak that grows on Mediterranean limestone where the soil is too thin for forest. The Garric family were Huguenots named for it, and one of them changed the English theater.
How old is the name Garrick?
Garrick first appears in US birth records in 1927 — 98 years ago. The typical Garrick alive today was born around 1986, making them about 39 years old. About 5,000 people named Garrick are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Garrick most popular?
Garrick peaked in 1973, reaching #509 nationally. Today it ranks #6803, 6,294 places below that high. See the whole 1973 chart.
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Where it comes from
From garriga to Garrick
The story of Garrick
David Garrick, born in Hereford in 1717 to a family of Huguenot descent, became the dominant figure of the eighteenth-century English stage as actor, playwright and manager of Drury Lane; he is generally credited with replacing declamatory acting with something closer to naturalism, and with the modern reputation of Shakespeare. Samuel Johnson, who traveled to London with him, wrote that his death eclipsed the gaiety of nations. The surname became a given name in the twentieth century in his honor and in the general surname fashion, and its best year in United States records is 1973.
Meaningscholars disagree
from the scrubland
The surname Garrick is generally traced to the Huguenot Garric or Garrigue, from Occitan garriga, limestone scrubland dominated by kermes oak. A separate Germanic derivation from ger, a spear, plus ric, ruler, is also proposed. The Huguenot route is the documented one for the family that made the name famous.
How the name formed
- garriga
- Garric
- Garrick
Related forms: Garric · Garriga · Garrik
Pronouncing Garrick
GARR-ik
Two syllables with the stress on the first. The Occitan garriga is three syllables with the weight in the middle and sounds quite different.
Nicknames for Garrick
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1927
- Most boys named
- 1989258 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #509reached in 1973
- Change vs 2023
- +50.0%12 in 2025, from 8
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Garrick in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Garric in French — related form
- Garriga in Occitan — related form
- Garrik in English — spelling variant
Garricks among us
people named Garrick are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 142,340 born in 2025 was named Garrick
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Danial test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Garrick's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Danial climbed just as high around 1954, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Danial's path sketches the road Garrick is walking now.
Garrick sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Garrick beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Garrick in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented Huguenot surname and one of the great figures of English theater.
- Gary and Rick are both completely established everyday forms.
- Seven letters and no pronunciation ambiguity.
- Garrick and Garrett are close and get confused.
- It reads as a surname, which is what it is.
- In American ears it is dated to the 1960s and 1970s.
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Masculine · #6803 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Garricks are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 5,000 people named Garrick are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Garrick in 2025?
- Garrick ranks #6803 among US boy names in 2025, with 12 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Garrick?
- About 1 in every 142,340 US boys born in 2025 was named Garrick — 12 in all.
- Will my child share the name Garrick with classmates?
- Garrick will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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