Garbett
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From the Norman personal name Gerberht, of Germanic origin, meaning literally 'bright spear'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɡɑɹbɪt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Garbett is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the Norman personal name Gerberht, of Germanic origin, meaning literally 'bright spear'.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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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)
Garbett 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, from Germanic names Gerbodo/Gerbert/Gerbald, meaning ‘spear-herald’, ‘spear-bright’, or ‘spear-bold’; first attested Gerbodo 1086 DB
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Norman personal name composed of the Gmc elements geri, gari spear + berht bright, famous. Gerbert, archbis¬ hop of Rheims, became Pope as Silvester II at the begin¬ ning of the 12th cent. There has been some confusion with Garbutt. Cogns.: Fr.: Gerbert, Gebert. Ger.: Gerbert, Gehrbrecht, Gehrbracht, Gerberich. Low Ger.: Garbrecht, Garber. Patrs.: Ger.: Gerberding. Low Ger.: Garberding, Garbers.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
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)
- Samuel Garbettb. 1717GBBritish businessman
- James Garbettb. 1802British academic and priest (1802–1879)
- Edward Garbettb. 1817GBBritish theologian
- Cyril Forster Garbettb. 1875GBArchbishop of York (1875-1955)
- Colin Campbell Garbettb. 1881INBritish colonial administrator (1881-1972)
- Marjorie Josephine Maynardb. 1891not in their usual nameBritish woman who lived in Iraq and designed some of the first set of Iraqi postage stamps
- Len Garbettb. 1919GBEnglish rugby league footballer and coach
- Terry Garbettb. 1945GBEnglish footballer (born 1945)
- Eddie Garbettb. 1949GBBritish association football player (born 1949)
- Matthew Garbettb. 2002NZNew Zealand association football player
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 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 823 | #30,403 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 751 | #29,598 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 715 | #32,236 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 16 | #94,489 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 7 | #79,838 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #176,725 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #119,469 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #329,783 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1991 | 1 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 1 | — |
Reference works 4
- 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 Garbett mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Norman personal name Gerberht, of Germanic origin, meaning literally 'bright spear'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Garbett?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɑɹbɪt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Garbett have the most bearers?
- Garbett is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/garbettThe 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
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Garbett”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.