Garner

At the 2020 census, 71,498 Americans bore the surname Garner — 449th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 4,181.

By the numbers

People: 71,498
Rank: 449th
How common: 1 in 4,181
Per 100,000: 23.9

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Garner described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 68.7%
Black, not Hispanic 22.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Garner

Jennifer Garner (born 1972)American actress
John Nance Garner (1868–1967)Vice President of the United States from 1933 to 1941
James Garner (1928–2014)American film and television actor
Julia Garner (born 1994)American actress and model
James Garner (born 2001)English association football player
Erroll Garner (1921–1977)American jazz pianist and composer
Kelli Garner (born 1984)American actress
Jay Garner (born 1938)United States Army general and United States Marine

People named Garner with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Garner

Also a first name

Garner has been given to 2,338 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 1932. See it as a given name.

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.