Garner
A unisex name of Old English origin, meaning grain storage; granary worker.
Babies a year
23
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list
Garner by the numbers
Garner was given to 23 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 82 babies in 1932, making it a 1930s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Garner. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean a craft or trade
Like Garner, each of these has a craft or trade in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Masonstone worker13,560 in the US (2017)
- Ameliawork, industriousness2,153 in England and Wales (2025)
- Graysonson of the steward8,767 in the US (2017)
- Penelopeweaver; wife of Odysseus1,174 in England and Wales (2025)
- Skylarscholar, learned one; a modern respelling of Schuyler4,984 in the US (2017)
- Chaseto hunt; one who hunts4,207 in the US (2017)
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