Garvin
Recorded 1894–2024 · United States
Garvin was most popular in 1921, when 52 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,955 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,424 people named Garvin.
Garvin over time
How old is the name Garvin?
Garvin first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1894, which makes it about 131 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 117 of the 132 years since.
How many people are named Garvin?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,424 American births named Garvin 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 1,236 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Garvin in 2025?
Garvin 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 Garvin getting more or less popular?
Garvin is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 6 births a year across 2021–2025 against 14 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Garvin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Garvin is a boy’s name — 0.0% of the 2,424 Americans given it were girls and 100.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% 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 Garvin?
Roughly 1,236 Americans named Garvin are alive today — 51% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 53 years old, and half are between 30 and 70. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.
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 Garvin 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