as a Last Name
- 10,818
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Garnett
Meaning & Origins
English: 1. from Old French Guarinot,Warinot, a pet form of the personal name Guarin, Warin, from Germanic wari(n)- ‘protection’, ‘shelter’. 2. possibly a metonymic occupational name for a maker or fitter of garnets, a type of hinge, Middle English garnette, or for a jeweler, from Middle English garnette, gernet ‘garnet’. 3. from a diminutive of Garner 1.
| 3,325th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 10,818
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- District of Columbia
- has the most people named Garnett per capita
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