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Garnett

#12,649 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Variant of Garnet

Garnett has been given to 6,641 babies in the U.S. since 1881. In 2025 it ranked #12,649 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1920, with 87 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 58% boys, 42% girls all-time.

Babies named Garnett, 2025

1 in 663,000

Garnett over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Garnett over time

In 2025, Garnett went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

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A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Garnett: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Garnet

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Garnett means

Garnett is a variant of Garnet.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Garnett is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈɡɑɹ.nət/ and /ˈɡɑː.nət/ for Garnett.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Garnett is a variant of Garnet. Garnet has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Garnet.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,857 boys were recorded with the name Garnett between 1881 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 87 in 1920; its best national rank was #509 in 1909.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,687 in 2020 to #12,649 in 2025.

In the United States, 2,784 girls were recorded with the name Garnett between 1889 and 1991. Its highest annual count was 99 in 1920; its best national rank was #646 in 1904.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Garnett?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,649
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Garnett sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Garnett. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Garnetts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Garnett was born before 1936 — so the typical Garnett is around 89 today.

Median birth year
1936
About 89 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
18.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,275
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1920s — 18.9% of all recorded uses (729).

Is Garnett rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−3,376
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+38
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
5.7%
Peak was 1920 (87)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#509
1909

Spellings of Garnett

Garnett is not the most common spelling — Garrett is, with 46.8% against Garnett's 1.3%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Garnett is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Garnett was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 5,263 boys, against 1 in 32,714 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

019 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kentucky1 in 5,263
  2. 2Virginia1 in 5,263
  3. 3Georgia1 in 20,000
  4. 4West Virginia1 in 50,000
  5. 5Missouri1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Indiana1 in —
  8. 8North Carolina1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Garnett has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Garnett is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Garnett was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 3,846 girls, against 1 in 40,185 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

026 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1West Virginia1 in 3,846
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 9,091
  3. 3Virginia1 in 25,000
  4. 4Ohio1 in 33,333
  5. 5Indiana1 in 50,000
  6. 6Missouri1 in 100,000
  7. 7Nebraska1 in 100,000
  8. 8Iowa1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Garnett has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Garnett around the world

Where Garnett ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Canada
    1996–2012
    #2,715
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    1953–1991
    #481
    in 1991

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Garnett

People whose public names include Garnett, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Garnett by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,649
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 38
Best rank ever
#509
1909
Peak year
1920
87 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,857
Count in 2025
5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#646
1904
Peak year
1920
99 that year
First recorded
1889
Last recorded
1991
All-time count
2,784
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Garnett

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

GarettGarrettGardnerGarrickGarhettGarethGarfieldGarnerGarnetGarrenGarrisonCorbettGarlandGarretJarettTruettGaroldGarthGarvinGarenGarionJarrettBeckettBurnett

Names with a curve like Garnett

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Garnett, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

BertrandObieHowellLoyAlvieLonzoTheadoreLambertDillardRowlandJonnieMurry

Sibling names for Garnett

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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