# Garnett (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/garnett/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6,641 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 3,857 / 2,784 (42% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 12 | 3,948 |
| 1965 | 9 | 4,608 |
| 1966 | 8 | 5,011 |
| 1967 | 11 | 4,128 |
| 1968 | 8 | 5,293 |
| 1969 | 10 | 4,818 |
| 1970 | 7 | 6,564 |
| 1971 | 8 | 6,193 |
| 1972 | 5 | 8,694 |
| 1973 | 5 | 8,850 |
| 1974 | 6 | 8,013 |
| 1975 | 7 | 7,404 |
| 1979 | 6 | 9,357 |
| 1980 | 5 | 10,894 |
| 1991 | 5 | 13,886 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 10 | 7,159 |
| 2005 | 10 | 7,295 |
| 2006 | 9 | 8,231 |
| 2008 | 11 | 7,366 |
| 2009 | 6 | 11,458 |
| 2010 | 7 | 10,016 |
| 2011 | 5 | 12,923 |
| 2013 | 7 | 10,010 |
| 2019 | 6 | 11,227 |
| 2020 | 5 | 12,693 |
| 2021 | 5 | 12,761 |
| 2022 | 5 | 12,985 |
| 2023 | 5 | 12,848 |
| 2024 | 8 | 9,278 |
| 2025 | 5 | 12,653 |

## People named Garnett

- George Dunning, animator (1920-1979)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.