Garnet (name) given name for American girls. It was in occasional use for boys in the United States between 1882 and 1925. It was most popular in 1904, when it was 593rd most popular name for American boys. The name has not appeared among the top 1,000 names for boys or girls since 1944 in the United States. Garnet (name) Garnet is a name of Middle English origin, derived from the dark red gemstone, which was in turn named for the pomegranate that the garnet crystals resemble. The surname Garnett comes from an Old English occupational surname referring to a seller of
Henry Garnet of [[John and Christopher Wright|John Wright]]. In November he was with [[Anne Vaux]] (whose family he had been introduced to in summer 1586) at White Webbs near Enfield, renewing the vows given on the [[Presentation of Mary|Feast of the Presentation of Our Lady]]. On 9 June 1605, he was to be found in a room on Thames Street in London, with [[Robert Catesby]]. In the midst of what Garnet later recalled was a seemingly casual conversation, Catesby asked the priest about the morality of "killing innocents". Garnet replied according to Catholic theology, that often, during war, innocents were killed alongside