girls:
2.8k births since 1889
#3286 (43rd percentile)
boys:
3.8k births since 1881
#1995 (56th percentile)
overall:
6.6k births since 1881
#3312 (57th percentile)
The name Garnett is the #3,312 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,628 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 57.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 57.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,995 (56.5% percentile) for all time with 3,844 births since 1881. For girls, it ranks #3,286 (42.5% percentile) for all time with 2,784 births since 1889.
Garnett first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for boys and 1889 for girls). Birth data for Garnett is available in 133 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023 (133 years for boys and 90 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Garnett has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (58.0% of all recorded births). In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Garnett were boys.
For boys, Garnett reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 15.4% percentile (ranked #453) with 79 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 147 births per million (ranked 7.9% percentile). Despite a low point around 2013, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Garnett ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 1.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Garnett reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 15.5% percentile (ranked #514) with 80 births per million. The name was most common in 1904, with 99 births per million (ranked 6.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1991.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Garnett".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Garnett. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 52.2% confident that Garnett is pronounced as GAHR-niht, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is GAHR-neht, at 37.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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