Tanner
Tanner is ranked 443rd among boys in 2024 (711 births). Its best rank was 82nd, in 1997–1998.
- Rank in 2024
- #443down 11 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 7110.04% of boys
- Peak year
- 19984,704 births
- Best rank
- #82first in 1997
- Since 1913
- 99,478people given the name
The story in the numbers
96,980 boys have been named Tanner in the United States since 1913, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1998, with 4,704 births — 0.25% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 207 → 443).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2001, and the 1990s alone account for 39%. It has spent 49 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 8 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 2,498 girls have also been given it, 2.5% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Tanner | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 21 | |
| 1920s | 22 | |
| 1930s | 7 | |
| 1950s | 8 | |
| 1960s | 53 | |
| 1970s | 816 | |
| 1980s | 5,697 | |
| 1990s | 37,396 | |
| 2000s | 31,681 | |
| 2010s | 17,180 | |
| 2020s | 4,099 |
In 1998, its biggest year
Tanner was the 82nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1998 were Michael, Jacob, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 1998.
Names that rose and fell with Tanner
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Deondrepeak 1998
- Dajonpeak 1999
- Marquanpeak 1997
- Mykalpeak 2001
- Tyquanpeak 1997
- Darrionpeak 1994
- Deontaepeak 2000
- Adariuspeak 2007
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.