Garry

Where Garry comes from

The dictionaries list Garry as a given name — a male given name transferred from the surname, a mostly British variant of Gary — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #809 among boys — 6 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1949
    Garry Shandling born
    American comedian
  3. 1954
    Peak, #138
    2,218 babies named Garry — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1962
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #247.
  5. 1963
    Garry Kasparov born
    Russian chess grandmaster and activist
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname, a mostly British variant of Gary.
Namesakes
  • Garry Kasparov · Russian chess grandmaster and activist, born 1963
  • Garry Shandling · American comedian, 1949–2016
  • Garry Marshall · American actor and filmmaker, 1934–2016
  • Garry Mendes Rodrigues · Dutch-born Cape Verdean footballer, born 1990
  • Garry Monk · English footballer, born 1979

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.