Garnet
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Either ‘maker or fitter of hinges’; ‘grower or seller of pomegranates’; or ‘little Garner’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Garnet is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Anguilla.
- AIAnguilla
- 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.
- Anguilla (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 296 (measured from records)
no count published
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
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]
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Garnet counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Anguilla | — | — | Garnet | 1 |
| US United States | — | 1.9K | Garnet | 296 |
| AU Australia | — | 1 | Garnet | 58 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | listed | Garnet | 80 |
| IN India | — | 42 | — | 20 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; the hanks-first-names-2001 register. 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)
Garnet is also recorded in 5 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 OFr Guarin/Guernot, or occupational from OFr garnetier ‘superintendent of the granary’ or ‘maker of garnets’; first attested Garnet 1409 Bardsley
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Old French; gemstone name, from pomegranate
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In French, from a pet form of Gamo, a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with gam-, a short form of Old High German gaman ‘joy’ or gamal ‘old’, ‘aged’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, definite singular of garn
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)
- Henry Garnetb. 1555GBEnglish Jesuit, executed because of his involvement in the Gunpowder Plot of 5 November 1605
- Garnet Wolseleyb. 1833IEAnglo-Irish officer in the British Army (1833-1913)
- Garnet Aultb. 1905CACanadian swimmer, Olympic bronze medallist (1905–1993)
- Garnet Richardsonb. 1933CACanadian curler (1933-2016)
- Garnet Mimmsb. 1933USAmerican musician
- Garnet Baileyb. 1948CACanadian ice hockey player (1948-2001)
- Garnet Rogersb. 1955CAsinger-songwriter
- Garnett Silkb. 1966JMnot in their usual nameJamaician musician (1966–1994)
- Garnet Hathawayb. 1991USAmerican professional ice hockey player
- Garnet Hardinactor
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.9K | #5,962 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 904 | #5,962 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 6 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1980 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1980 | 1 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | A Concise Dictionary of First Names (Hanks & Hodges, 2001) | — | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | The Penguin Book of Baby Names (David Pickering) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Garnet 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].
- In which country does Garnet have the most bearers?
- Garnet is most frequently recorded in Anguilla, where it is most often spelled garnet.
What do you want to know about Garnet?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/garnetThe 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, “Garnet”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.