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Garnet

Unisex name · Early 20th-century

Living in the US
~2,400 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#10,917 among girls
Births in 2025
14 8,923 since 1880
Typical age
70 years, median

Garnet popularity over time

Garnet rank by birth year, 1884–2025Garnet ranked #851 in 1884 and #10,917 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #377, in 1911.#1,000#10,000#10,917best #377 in 191118901920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1884–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

1920 is the peak year for Garnet, with 305 births. It first clears the SSA reporting threshold in 1882. It reaches the top 1,000 in 59 years of the record.

In 2025 it ranked #10,917 with 14 births. Compared with 2015, births are up 2.0×. It climbed 4376 places against the previous year.

Babies named Garnet per yearPeaks at 305 births in 1920.305 in 1920018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Garnet?

About 2,400 people named Garnet are alive in the United States today. SSA has recorded 8,923 births under the name since 1880. The split is about 1,700 women and 680 men.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Garnet?

The typical living Garnet is 70 years old. The 1940s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Garnet a early 20th-century name.

Your Garnet

Ages of living people named GarnetHalf of living Garnets are older than 70 and half younger.median 70020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Is Garnet a boy's or a girl's name?

77% girls23% boys
Share of all recorded US births under this name, 1880 to the latest year.

Recent births under the name Garnet divide almost evenly between girls and boys. Across the whole record, 77.5% of births under the name were girls.

Where the name Garnet comes from

Named after the garnet gemstone.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

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