This page shows the Gary (boys) figures from the National Records of Scotland babies' first names table, which covers every year from 1974 to 2025. Each row below is one year in which Gary was recorded as a first name for boys in Scotland: the number of babies given the name that year and the name's rank among Gary's first-name rivals that year — that is, the rank the source table itself gives the row, among all first names for boys that year.

The record for Gary for boys sums every one of those rows. Across the years covered, Gary appears in 51 of them, from 1974 to 2025, with 11,342 babies in total. Its largest single year was 1981, when the table records 617 babies given the name, at rank 16 among all first names for boys that year.

Figures cover every year from 1974 to 2025; years in which the table records no row for Gary for boys are simply not listed. The publisher suppresses names with a total count of 2 or less in Scotland, so no figure here stands below 3.

Year by year

Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names table, 1974 to 2025. Fetched 2026-11-05.

YearBabies given the nameRank among boys' first names
20253762
20244619
20227425
20215533
20204599
20198394
20189361
201717264
201616268
201511320
201410358
201312316
201218246
201122211
201024196
200924191
200831172
200740143
200630165
200536145
200459103
200347108
20025889
20016985
20006487
19996984
199810169
199713064
199615748
199516747
199423940
199331231
199235626
199144421
199046720
198948820
198853217
198756716
198657716
198560215
198457217
198352218
198251918
198161716
198055918
197949222
197836230
197740624
197641824
197546923
197457020

More