Given name & surname
Garrick
“one who rules by the spear”
Garrick is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “one who rules by the spear.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “one who rules by the spear.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
How it developed
From Old English *Gārrīċ, from Proto-Germanic *Gaizarīks, built from Old English gār (“spear”) + rīċ.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1927. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Garrick through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5,439
- 5,439 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1989
- 258 babies
- 2025
- 12
- #6,929 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −56%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 12 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 6,929 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 56.0% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 258 in 1989. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,385 as a first name in 2020; 2,947 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Garrick’s family of names
In English usage, Garrick shares an earlier linguistic root with Gaiseric. Garrick has a related form in Garik. Garrick has a related form in Garick.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 13
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Garricvariant
- Garicvariant
- Garikvariant
- Garickvariant
- Garrikvariant
- Garekvariant
- Garrycvariant
- Garycvariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Garrick
- Garrick OhlssonAmerican pianistborn 1948
- Garrick HagonEnglish actorborn 1939
- Garrick MalleryAmerican ethnologist (1831-1894)
- Garrick UtleyAmerican newsreader1939–2014
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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