Garrick (name)
Garrick is a personal name, and is both a surname and a given name.
The name has two identified points of origin.
Garrick originated in Old English and/or French. Old English garrick means "one who governs with a spear", or "spear king". In French, garric is derived from an Occitan word meaning "oak tree grove".
Garrick is also an anglicised spelling and pronunciation of the Scottish name Garrioch. This variation originated in the Aberdeenshire area Garioch. The placename Garioch comes from the Gaelic word Gairbheach, meaning "place of roughness". Examples of family members using Garrioch and Garrick can be seen on adjacent gravestones in St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney.
People with the name Garrick include:
Given name
- Garrick Dowhen
- Garrick Hagon
- Garrick Ibbotson
- Garrick Morgan, former Australian rugby footballer
- Garrick Ohlsson
- Garrick Palmer
- Garrick Tremain, New Zealand cartoonist and painter
- Garrick Utley
Surname
- Barbara Garrick, American actress
- David Garrick, English actor
- David Garrick (singer), English singer
- Edward Garrick, instigator of the Boston Massacre
- Francis James Garrick, New Zealand politician
- Horrie Garrick, Australian politician
- Jack Garrick, New Zealand zoologist
- John Garrick, British film actor
- Jordon Garrick, Jamaican footballer
- Jay Garrick, a DC Comics superhero and the first to use the name Flash
- Leon Garrick, Jamaican cricketer
- Martin Garrick, American politician
- Michael Garrick, English pianist and composer
- Neville Garrick, Jamaican graphic artist, photographer, filmmaker, and writer
- Reuben Garrick, Australian rugby league player
- Richard Garrick, American director and actor
- Stanley Garrick, Kingdom of Benin senior administrator and courtier
- Tom Garrick, American basketball player