Boy
Garth
As a boy's name, Garth is understood to mean "enclosure, yard". It had its heyday in the 1960s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is on the rarer side without being unusual in the registry. It has appeared in U.S. birth records in nearly every decade since 1900, a genuinely long run.
Old NorseOld Norse "garðr"
EtymologyMeaning "enclosure, yard"
Births by decade
1900s
10
1910s
395
1920s
765
1930s
676
1940s
850
1950s
1,606
1960s
1,852
1970s
1,388
1980s
775
1990s
956
2000s
156
2010s
107
Peaked in the 1960s · 9,536 total U.S. births since 1900