Given name
Garik
“one who rules by the spear”
Garik is a variant of Garrick. One English interpretation is “one who rules by the spear.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Garik is a variant of Garrick. One English interpretation is “one who rules by the spear.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Garik is a variant of Garrick. An origin associated with Garrick is English.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1989. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Garik through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 90
- 90 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1995
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2014. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 1995. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 333 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Garik’s family of names
Garik has a related form in Garrick. In Russian usage, Garik is a transliteration of Гарик. In Armenian usage, Garik is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Գարիկ.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Garik
- Garik KharlamovRussian actorborn 1981
- Garik SukachovRussian singerborn 1959
- Garik MartirosyanArmenian comedianborn 1974
- Garik IsraelianArmenian physicistborn 1963
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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