How popular is the name Garnet?

Garnet ranks 1,734th among girls' names in US records, with 8,909 births since 1884. Over the past decade it accounts for 107.

Is Garnet a unisex name?

No. Garnet is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1918, when 258 children were given the name. It has been in use for 141 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Girl name#1,734 of girl names

Pronounced G AA1 R N AH0 T (ARPABET)

Garnet is a girls' name, and first appears in 1884. It has been given to 8,909 children — the 1,734th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 107 births across the past decade, against a peak of 258 in a single year. That peak was in 1918.

1918Girls: 258Boys: 45

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Garnet?: Garnet ranks 1,734th among girls' names in US records, with 8,909 births since 1884. Over the past decade it accounts for 107.
Is Garnet a unisex name?: No. Garnet is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Garnet most popular?: 1918, when 258 children were given the name. It has been in use for 141 years and is still recorded as of 2024.