Gareth
Gareth is a distinctive choice, ranked #3256 in 2025. Your child is likely to be the only Gareth in their class.
About the Name Gareth
Gareth has seen a notable decline in recent years, dropping 264 places in five years. It was most popular in 1996 at #117 — parents choosing it today are making a deliberately counter-trend decision. The name has been a consistent presence in UK records since 1996.
Gareth is rare in the UK, so your child is very likely to be the only Gareth in their class.
⭐ Famous People Named Gareth
- Gareth Potts — Gareth David Potts is an English pool player, nicknamed "the Golden Boy".
- Gareth Owen (rugby league, born 1992) — Gareth Owen is an English professional rugby league footballer who plays for Oldham in League 1.
- Gareth Jones (journalist) — Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones was a Welsh journalist who in March 1933 first reported in the Western world, without equivocation and under his own name, the existence of the Soviet famine of 1930–1933, including the Holodomor and the Asharshylyk.
Biographical summaries are shortened from Wikipedia and are used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; those summaries remain available under that same licence.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the name Gareth
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In a typical UK class of 28, highlighted children share the name Gareth
Almost certainly the only Gareth in the class
UK Popularity (1996–2025)
Rank and birth count · ONS official data
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Famous People Named Gareth
Notable people who share this name, from history to the present day. See full list on Wikipedia