# Garnsey (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/garnsey/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Norman.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Norman |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 589 |
| US rank (2010) | 37,735 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 524,186 people |
| Change since 2000 | +5.6% (558 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* English surname of Norman origin, from Great Gornhay in Tiverton, Devon, from the Old English personal name Gārmund, see Garman. * Also as a habitational surname of Norman origin, from the village of Germisay, in Lorraine. It could also be a habitational surname from Guernsey in the Channel Islands. The second element of both of these is probably Old Norse ey (“island”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Garnsey in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 94% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 4.2% |

## Similar surnames

Garnes, Garnica, Grimes, Granger, Grooms, Grimsley, Gehring, Grainger, Gurung, Grams, Greenspan, Goehring.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.