Garold
Recorded 1901–2004 · United States
Garold was most popular in 1946, when 97 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,443 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,051 people named Garold.
Garold over time
How old is the name Garold?
Garold first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1901, which makes it about 124 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 85 of the 125 years since. It was last recorded in 2004.
How many people are named Garold?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,051 American births named Garold between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,271 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Garold in 2025?
Garold was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Garold a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Garold is a boy’s name — 0.0% of the 3,051 Americans given it were girls and 100.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Garold?
Roughly 1,271 Americans named Garold are alive today — 42% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 72 years old, and half are between 62 and 79.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Garold is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org