Popularity
The popularity of Garrett as a first name in the United States has risen sharply in the last century, from number 522 in 1908 to a recent peak in 2000 at number 74.
| Garrett's popularity from 1996 to 2006 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Rank | ||||
| 2006 | 138 | ||||
| 2005 | 124 | ||||
| 2004 | 114 | ||||
| 2003 | 106 | ||||
| 2002 | 91 | ||||
| 2001 | 80 | ||||
| 2000 | 74 | ||||
| 1999 | 78 | ||||
| 1998 | 80 | ||||
| 1997 | 85 | ||||
| 1996 | 80 | ||||
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Famous quotes containing the word popularity:
“Here also was made the novelty ‘Chestnut Bell’ which enjoyed unusual popularity during the gay nineties when every dandy jauntily wore one of the tiny bells on the lapel of his coat, and rang it whenever a story-teller offered a ‘chestnut.’”
—Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.”
—Thomas Campbell (1777–1844)
“There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)