Banner

Last seen for girls in 2024 at #15,293 · #2,145 for boys in 2025, 67 births
Given to boys 95.8% of the time

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Peak · boys
#2,113
2020 · 66 births
Debut · boys
1916
10 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
799
since 1916

Banner over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Banner has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202023boysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025—#2,14567
2024#15,2935#2,28862
2023#12,1977#2,14767
2022—#2,75347
2021—#2,17365
2020—#2,11366
2019—#2,99340
2018#13,7936#2,84842
2017—#2,89141
2016#16,2155#2,68945
2015—#2,96639
2014#16,5135#3,53230
2013—#3,40531
2012—#7,05011
2011—#8,0799
2010—#5,04718
2009—#7,69210
2008—#9,8717
2007—#10,9216
2006—#10,6626
2005—#11,4725
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2002#12,1877#5,13114
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1997—#8,1106
1996—#9,0155
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First appearance
1916

The first year at least five boys were named Banner! It came in at #2,543, and was given to 10 baby boys.

Quietest stretch: 1918, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

See more about Banner
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 143 spots since 2024 (#2,288 → #2,145)
  • 32 spots since 2020 (#2,113 → #2,145)
  • 821 spots since 2015 (#2,966 → #2,145)
Rise & fade · boys
104 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1916
  • Peaked 2020 at #2,113 (66 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 25,494
  • Highest: 1 in 25,494 boys born in 2025 were named Banner (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,113 in 2020, was only 1 in 26,153 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 46.8% of all boys named Banner (374) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s23#2,543 (1916)#3,165
1920s11#3,697 (1928)#4,010
1930s10#3,518 (1937)#3,580
1940s5#3,430 (1944)#3,430
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1990s22#8,110 (1997)#8,576
2000s48#5,131 (2002)#9,292
2010s306#2,689 (2016)#4,150
2020s374#2,113 (2020)#2,270

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Banner in 2023

girls
#12,197
7 births · 1 in 229,226 girls
boys
#2,147
67 births · 1 in 25,531 boys

Top girls' names in 2023

  1. #1Olivia15,329
  2. #2Emma13,590
  3. #3Charlotte12,638
  4. #4Amelia12,365
  5. #5Sophia11,999
  6. #6Mia11,404
  7. #7Isabella10,871
  8. #8Ava9,737
  9. #9Evelyn9,121
  10. #10Luna7,853
  11. #12,197Banner7

Top boys' names in 2023

  1. #1Liam20,904
  2. #2Noah19,116
  3. #3Oliver14,792
  4. #4James11,739
  5. #5Elijah11,523
  6. #6Mateo11,293
  7. #7Theodore11,093
  8. #8Henry10,996
  9. #9Lucas10,890
  10. #10William10,673
  11. #2,147Banner67
More about 2023

girls

1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 229,226 of them was named Banner, which outranked 30.8% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Banner
  1. #11,169Zylia8
  2. #11,169Zylynn8
  3. #11,169Zymeria8
  4. #12,197Banner7
  5. #12,197Aalaysia7
  6. #12,197Aalina7
  7. #12,197Aamani7
  8. #13,462Aabha6
  9. #13,462Aadiya6
  10. #13,462Aalana6

Tied with 1,264 names at #12,197; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2022
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,640Kaeli#2,319 → #679
  2. ↑ 1,512Alitzel#2,388 → #876
  3. ↑ 1,287Emryn#2,174 → #887
  4. ↑ 813Adhara#1,583 → #770
  5. ↑ 717Azari#1,412 → #695
Fallers
  1. ↓ 364Addilynn#940 → #1,304
  2. ↓ 296India#968 → #1,264
  3. ↓ 259Madisyn#805 → #1,064
  4. ↓ 231Chanel#937 → #1,168
  5. ↓ 219Averi#906 → #1,125

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 25,531 of them was named Banner, which outranked 84.9% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Banner
  1. #2,129Reef68
  2. #2,129Sahil68
  3. #2,129Saige68
  4. #2,147Banner67
  5. #2,147Adonai67
  6. #2,147Amor67
  7. #2,147Asiel67
  8. #2,173Augustin66
  9. #2,173Banx66
  10. #2,173Blaize66

Tied with 25 names at #2,147; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2022
Risers
  1. ↑ 858Izael#1,665 → #807
  2. ↑ 662Chozen#1,479 → #817
  3. ↑ 589Eiden#1,479 → #890
  4. ↑ 409Cassian#938 → #529
  5. ↑ 385Kyren#1,322 → #937
Fallers
  1. ↓ 384Dior#842 → #1,226
  2. ↓ 275Maxton#963 → #1,238
  3. ↓ 205Davian#967 → #1,172
  4. ↓ 193Braden#935 → #1,128
  5. ↓ 191Heath#862 → #1,053

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2023 →