Garnet
#10,917 in the US in 2025
Garnet in the United States
Between 2016 and 2025 the name has been falling — down 41% as a share of girls' births.
Garnet is given to both sexes: 6,913 female and 2,010 male births on record. The two curves rarely move together, which is why they are drawn separately rather than summed.
SOURCE·US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data·Public domain. SSA lists a name only if it was given to at least 5 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Garnet in New Zealand
Garnet never reached 10 births in a single year in New Zealand, so it does not appear in the DIA file. That is a reporting floor, not a zero — the name may still have been registered here, just never ten times in one year.
SOURCE·NZ Department of Internal Affairs, births by first name·CC BY 4.0. DIA lists a name only if it was given to at least 10 babies of that sex that year.·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Decade by decade in the US
| Year | Rank | Births |
|---|---|---|
| 1890 | #693 | 15 |
| 1900 | #656 | 29 |
| 1910 | #463 | 74 |
| 1920 | #422 | 250 |
| 1930 | #667 | 106 |
| 1940 | #721 | 93 |
| 1950 | #1,259 | 53 |
| 1960 | #2,196 | 28 |
| 1970 | #4,246 | 13 |
| 1980 | #4,978 | 14 |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 |
Where in the United States
The states that registered Garnet most often since 1884. These are lifetime totals, so they track state population as much as local taste — a name common in Wyoming will never out-count California.
| State | Births |
|---|---|
| Ohio | 1,097 |
| West Virginia | 877 |
| Pennsylvania | 544 |
| Kentucky | 373 |
| Indiana | 353 |
| Illinois | 178 |
| Iowa | 134 |
| Michigan | 105 |
| Missouri | 55 |
| Nebraska | 36 |
How these figures are worked out
- Counts come straight from the registrars: the US Social Security Administration (1880–2025) and the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (1900–2025). Nothing is scraped from another names site.
- Ranks are computed against every name in that year's file, not just the ones this site publishes pages for — otherwise a rank would flatter every name we happen to list.
- The curve is drawn on births per 100,000 of that sex, not raw counts. Raw counts across eras are misleading: far more births were registered in 1957 than in 1890, so a flat count is a falling share.
- Each country hides small numbers — the US below 5 births a year, New Zealand below 10. A gap in a line is "below the floor", never "nobody".
SOURCE·US SSA (1880–2025) + NZ DIA (1900–2025) birth registrations·ranks and shares computed from the source files, see method·REVIEWED JUL 2026