The GARRETT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	107,777	253	0.04	400
United States (1880 census)	18,462	288	0.037	369
Change since 1880	+89315	+35	+0.003	+31
Other Countries
Australia	1,983	817	0.012	121
United Kingdom	8,959	668	0.02	195

Top States for GARRETT by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	12,144	192	0.058	582
California	7,139	461	0.021	211
Georgia	6,331	141	0.077	773
Tennessee	5,606	120	0.099	985
Florida	5,271	342	0.033	330
Top States for GARRETT by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	4,864	114	0.109	1,094
Tennessee	5,606	120	0.099	985
South Carolina	3,828	136	0.095	954
Oklahoma	3,028	117	0.088	878
Arkansas	2,318	123	0.087	867

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called GARRETT live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called GARRETT represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called GARRETT in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a GARRETT by picking someone at random in Alabama than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of GARRETT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the GARRETT surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the GARRETT surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of GARRETT in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	604	0.56
Asian/Pacific	334	0.31
White (Caucasian)	78,063	72.43
Black/African American	25,403	23.57
Mixed Race	1,778	1.65
White (Hispanic)	1,595	1.48

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the GARRETT surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to GARRETT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as GARRETT.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.