Tracing the Garnet Family Name

Seen on a birth certificate or a ship's manifest, Garnet is usually a form of Garnett. In origin, the name means “A descendant of Guarin, or a nickname from the pomegranate colour”.

• Without the “t” of Garnett, Garnet is a simpler written form of the same name.
• Garnet ranked 70,403 in the 2010 US Census, with 278 people answering to the name. From 1891 to 2000, 191 births in France were registered under Garnet. Births ran at 19 in 1891–1900 and 13 in 1991–2000.
• Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

Family crest and blazon

Arms linked to Garnett and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Get the complete Garnet report, with a museum-style coat of arms.