Garnet

Where Garnet comes from

Named after the garnet gemstone.
— Wiktionary's entry for Garnet
  • French
Along the way
  1. 1884
    First appearance
    #851 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1911
    Peak, #377
    116 babies named Garnet — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1948
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,250.
  4. 2015
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from French.
Namesakes

No widely known Garnet turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.