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Garnet vs Garret

American parents have registered 13,252 Garrets since 1880, against 8,923 Garnets. But in 2025 it was Garnet that was commoner, 14 babies to 11.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Garnet against Garret, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Garnet Garret

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 144 years in which either name was published, Garnet for 78 years and Garret for 66 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Garnet Garret
Total US births 8,92313,252
Most in one year 305590
Babies in 2025 1411
Estimated living today 2,30012,000
Median age today 6930
Peak year 19182000
Best rank 407th girls420th boys
Rank in 2025 10,917th7,194th
First recorded 18821881
Girls / boys 6,913 / 2,0105 / 13,247

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Garnets alive today are over 69; half the Garrets are over 30. That is 39 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Garnet and Garret.