as a Last Name
- 81,883
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Garner
Meaning & Origins
English: from Anglo-Norman French gerner ‘granary’ (Old French grenier, from Late Latin granarium, a derivative of granum ‘grain’). It may have been a topographic name for someone who lived near a barn or granary, or a metonymic occupational name for someone in charge of the stores kept in a granary.
| 388th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 81,883
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Alabama
- has the most people named Garner per capita
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