Garnett
Garnett is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 509th, in 1909.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 192087 births
- Best rank
- #509in 1909
- Since 1881
- 6,636people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,852 boys have been named Garnett in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 87 births.
The name has all but left use: 8 births in 2024, against 87 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1936, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 62 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Garnett is used for both sexes: 42% of its bearers are girls (2,784), most of them born around 1920.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Garnett | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 46 | |
| 1890s | 80 | |
| 1900s | 128 | |
| 1910s | 541 | |
| 1920s | 729 | |
| 1930s | 553 | |
| 1940s | 505 | |
| 1950s | 419 | |
| 1960s | 283 | |
| 1970s | 208 | |
| 1980s | 133 | |
| 1990s | 92 | |
| 2000s | 82 | |
| 2010s | 25 | |
| 2020s | 28 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Garnett was the 689th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1920 were John, William, Robert, James and Charles. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Garnett
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Othapeak 1920
- Lesterpeak 1918
- Virgilpeak 1921
- Arliepeak 1921
- Ottispeak 1920
- Herschelpeak 1921
- Vesterpeak 1922
- Eldridgepeak 1924
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.