Garnett
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Either ‘maker or fitter of hinges’; ‘grower or seller of pomegranates’; or ‘little Garner’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɡɑɹnɪt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Garnett is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 27K
- CACanada≈1 in 27K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 405 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
10,370 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Either ‘maker or fitter of hinges’; ‘grower or seller of pomegranates’; or ‘little Garner’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Garnett counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 10,370 | 1 in 32K | 10K | Garnett | 405 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | listed | Garnett | 192 |
| KP North Korea | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Garnett | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 1 | Garnett | 131 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 1 | Garnett | 121 |
| GY Guyana | #141 | 474 | 1 in 1.6K | 474 | Garnett | 6 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 14 | 1 in 3.8K | 14 | — | 3 |
10,370 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Garnett is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, t.from Old French Guarinot, Warinot, a pet form of the personal name Guarin, Warin, from Germanic wari(n)- ‘protection’, ‘shelter’. 2. possibly a metonymic occupational name for a maker or fitter of garnets, a type of hinge. Middle English gamette, or for a jeweler, from Middle English garnette, gernet ‘garnet’. 3. from a diminutive of Garner 1.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, To pull apart textile fiber waste material, such as old rags, in preparation for carding.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- James M. Garnettb. 1770USAmerican politician (1770-1843)
- Richard Brooke Garnettb. 1817USConfederate Army general (1817–1863)
- Robert S. Garnettb. 1819USConfederate Army general (1819–1861)
- Edward Garnettb. 1868GBBritish writer and critic (1868–1937)
- David Garnettb. 1892GBBritish writer and publisher (1892-1981)
- Tay Garnettb. 1894USAmerican film director and writer (1894–1977)
- Angelica Garnettb. 1918GBBritish writer and artist (1918-2012)
- Tony Garnettb. 1936GBBritish actor and film and TV producer (1936–2020)
- Gale Garnettb. 1942NZCanadian singer
- Kevin Garnettb. 1976USAmerican basketball player (born 1976)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.5K | #7,004 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 723 | #7,004 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1920 | 99 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1915 | 91 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1918 | 88 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1920 | 87 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1922 | 86 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1916 | 84 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1922 | 83 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1923 | 82 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1923 | 82 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1921 | 81 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Garnett mean, and where does it come from?
- Either ‘maker or fitter of hinges’; ‘grower or seller of pomegranates’; or ‘little Garner’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Garnett?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɑɹnɪt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Garnett have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Garnett, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled garnett.
- Where is Garnett most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Garnett is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 1.6 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Garnett?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,370 people named Garnett in 2010, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
- How common is Garnett compared with other names?
- In Guyana, Garnett is the 141st most common surname of 15,834 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Garnett?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/garnettThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Garnett” — the 141st most common surname in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.