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Sounds like Margaret.
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Garnet is a deep red stone. For females, it has been used since the 1880s and became somewhat popular in the 1910s and 1920s. It is rarely used today, ranking over #10000 with only 9 births in 2018.
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According to http://www.tekeli.li/onomastikon/England-Medieval/Norman.html, Garnet is a variant of #Warin#, a tribal name, or it comes from the placename #La Varenne#, "game-park".
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I live in Eastern Canada and Garnet is fairly popular around here as a man's name - or at least, it was popular fifty to seventy years ago. I quite like it, might revive it someday!
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There is a book containing this name within the title: Miss Garnet's Angel by Sally Vickers. However in this instance Garnet is the surname of Miss Julia Garnet.
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I prefer this name for a guy. It has a bit of a harsh sound to it.
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This name is borne by the phenomenal Canadian guitarist/folk singer Garnet Rogers. I can never see it as a girl's name because of that. I like it -- it's original without being too weird.
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He was named for two prominent abolitionists, Henry Highland Garnet and Frederick Douglass. Baltimore's father, Peter, was a pupil of Garnet and associated with Douglass.