Garnett
Garnett reached its high-water mark in 1920 at number 687, and has been recorded 6,641 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 12,008th. About 1,900 Garnetts are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 67.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Garnett boys named Garnett
Girls and boys called Garnett
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Garnett crossed from girls to boys in 1938, and has stayed there for 35 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 86% boys, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 73 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
- 6,641
- Estimated living today
- 1,900
- Median age today
- 67
- Peak year
- 1920
- Best rank
- 687th
- Rank in 2025
- 12,008th
- First recorded
- 1881
- Girls / boys
- 2,784 / 3,857
How old the living Garnetts are
born that year still alive today
Of the 6,641 babies given the name since 1881, about 1,900 are alive — 29 in every hundred. Roughly 70 of them are children and 1,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1958 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 Garnett is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Garnett is most concentrated in Kentucky (17.9×), West Virginia (16.1×), Virginia (13.2×), Georgia (2.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1920
The most popular boys’ names the year Garnett peaked:
Related names
Garnett 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.