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The garnett Surname

garnett Name Meaning and History

  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.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of garnett Families in the US in 1920
Number of garnett families
 96-189
 33-95		 1-32
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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