Garnet — #15284 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Garnet

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,905 babies named Garnet between 1884 and 2024, spanning 141 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Garnet currently holds the #15284 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 258 babies received it in a single year. Garnet is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,004 additional births since 1882.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Garnet performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 1,701 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Garnet shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Ohio, which accounts for 1,097 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by West Virginia and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Garnet in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Garnet in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 6,905 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.