Garnet
Garnet is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. Its best rank was 378th, in 1911.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 50.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1918258 births
- Best rank
- #378in 1911
- Since 1884
- 8,909people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,905 girls have been named Garnet in the United States since 1884, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 258 births.
The name has all but left use: 5 births in 2024, against 258 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1924, and the 1910s alone account for 25%. It has spent 59 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Garnet is used for both sexes: 22% of its bearers are boys (2,004), most of them born around 1919.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Garnet | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 41 | |
| 1890s | 245 | |
| 1900s | 543 | |
| 1910s | 1,701 | |
| 1920s | 1,657 | |
| 1930s | 957 | |
| 1940s | 687 | |
| 1950s | 443 | |
| 1960s | 227 | |
| 1970s | 119 | |
| 1980s | 78 | |
| 1990s | 38 | |
| 2000s | 39 | |
| 2010s | 78 | |
| 2020s | 52 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Garnet was the 407th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Garnet
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Beatricepeak 1921
- Elnapeak 1917
- Idellpeak 1921
- Velvapeak 1916
- Marguerittepeak 1919
- Rubyepeak 1919
- Jewellpeak 1920
- Velmapeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.