Garnet
About 8,923 American babies have been named Garnet since 1882, most of them around 1918. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 10,917th. About 2,300 Garnets are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 69.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Garnet boys named Garnet
Girls and boys called Garnet
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 6,913 girls and 2,010 boys in all, and in 1980 the split was 14 to 12.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 78 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 8,923
- Estimated living today
- 2,300
- Median age today
- 69
- Peak year
- 1918
- Best rank
- 407th
- Rank in 2025
- 10,917th
- First recorded
- 1882
- Girls / boys
- 6,913 / 2,010
How old the living Garnets are
born that year still alive today
Of the 8,923 babies given the name since 1882, about 2,300 are alive — 25 in every hundred. Roughly 220 of them are children and 1,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1956 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin French
Named after the garnet gemstone.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where Garnet is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Garnet is most concentrated in West Virginia (23.6×), Kentucky (5.7×), Ohio (5.6×), Indiana (3.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1918
The most popular girls’ names the year Garnet peaked:
Related names
Garnet against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.