Garnett — #8971 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Garnett

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,852 babies named Garnett between 1881 and 2024, spanning 144 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Garnett currently holds the #8971 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 87 babies received it in a single year. Garnett is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,784 additional births since 1889.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Garnett performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 729 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Garnett shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Virginia, which accounts for 732 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Kentucky and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Garnett in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Garnett 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 3,852 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.