Hot take: Fenrir, Skoll, Hati, Garm, Hrodvitnir, etc are all different names and roles for the same cosmic wolf, they just got their own names and personalities over time as they were differentiated.
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A Book of Creatures 
I think Garm and Fenrir are a little too different to be the same. However this does sound plausible.
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Tyr’s hand is bitten off by Fenrir, but at Ragnarok it is Garm who he fights. Always thought that was odd.
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That can be said about many other legendary creatures though
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It is a hot take after all
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archetypes, in the loose sense
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Actually the garm/fenrir thing is actually a pretty mainstream theory; and not just them, but frigg/freya, odin/odr, and a whole bunch more. Remember that these were oral traditions, and the norse delighted in giving clever nicknames to the beings in their myths. Easy for people to start thinking different names refer to different beings; and with no holy text or central authority to decide what’s canon, eventually one being becomes two.
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I was always taught that Skoll and Hati are Fenrir’s sons by a jotun
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As Fenrir’s job got more specialized over time, he delegated to his sons
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