# Garland (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/garland/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | “triangular piece of land” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 24,712 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 23,857 / 855 (3% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

English surname, from the noun garland. Also derived from Garland in Devon, from an ancestor of the noun gore (“triangular piece of land”) + land.

## What it means

Garland is grouped under earth.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 5 | 13,884 |
| 1993 | 5 | 14,242 |
| 1995 | 7 | 10,898 |
| 1998 | 7 | 11,539 |
| 2000 | 10 | 9,407 |
| 2005 | 11 | 9,677 |
| 2006 | 6 | 15,774 |
| 2008 | 5 | 18,456 |
| 2011 | 6 | 15,472 |
| 2012 | 5 | 17,768 |
| 2016 | 5 | 17,132 |
| 2017 | 9 | 11,003 |
| 2018 | 5 | 16,498 |
| 2019 | 5 | 16,365 |
| 2023 | 5 | 15,989 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 21 | 4,555 |
| 2012 | 23 | 4,297 |
| 2013 | 18 | 5,039 |
| 2014 | 12 | 6,773 |
| 2015 | 21 | 4,599 |
| 2016 | 22 | 4,516 |
| 2017 | 16 | 5,613 |
| 2018 | 21 | 4,650 |
| 2019 | 20 | 4,852 |
| 2020 | 16 | 5,534 |
| 2021 | 15 | 5,866 |
| 2022 | 17 | 5,509 |
| 2023 | 23 | 4,506 |
| 2024 | 16 | 5,739 |
| 2025 | 12 | 6,928 |

## People named Garland

- Garland Jeffreys, American musician
- J. G. Quintel, American animator
- Sim Iness, athletics competitor (1930–1996)
- Hank Cochran, American country musician (1935-2010)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.