# Garrison (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/garrison/  
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 | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 8,514 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 8,509 / 5 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 6, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 5 | 14,243 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 151 | 1,175 |
| 2012 | 201 | 990 |
| 2013 | 210 | 952 |
| 2014 | 206 | 999 |
| 2015 | 193 | 1,040 |
| 2016 | 170 | 1,140 |
| 2017 | 169 | 1,131 |
| 2018 | 149 | 1,240 |
| 2019 | 173 | 1,128 |
| 2020 | 139 | 1,299 |
| 2021 | 149 | 1,274 |
| 2022 | 135 | 1,383 |
| 2023 | 107 | 1,625 |
| 2024 | 92 | 1,782 |
| 2025 | 92 | 1,757 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 3 | 2,859 |
| 2006 | 3 | 4,052 |

## People named Garrison

- Garrison Keillor, American author, storyteller, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality
- Daniel Garrison Brinton, American archaeologist and ethnologist (1837-1899)
- Garrison Mathews, American basketball player (born 1996)
- Garrison Starr, American musician

## 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.