Tanner
#3,517 for girls in 2025, 43 births · #475 for boys in 2025, 641 births
Given to boys 97.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1998 · 4,704 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- 8 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 97,625since 1913
Tanner over time
Rank among boys' names. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,517 | 43 | #475 | 641 |
| 2024 | #3,119 | 51 | #441 | 714 |
| 2023 | #3,225 | 50 | #432 | 721 |
| 2022 | #3,416 | 46 | #411 | 784 |
| 2021 | #3,157 | 51 | #359 | 905 |
| 2020 | #3,450 | 44 | #333 | 980 |
| 2019 | #3,499 | 44 | #328 | 1,019 |
| 2018 | #3,107 | 52 | #301 | 1,142 |
| 2017 | #3,145 | 51 | #272 | 1,331 |
| 2016 | #3,010 | 55 | #237 | 1,605 |
| 2015 | #2,590 | 69 | #224 | 1,715 |
| 2014 | #2,888 | 59 | #207 | 1,866 |
| 2013 | #2,726 | 63 | #197 | 2,050 |
| 2012 | #2,935 | 58 | #178 | 2,182 |
| 2011 | #3,051 | 55 | #182 | 2,139 |
| 2010 | #3,075 | 54 | #176 | 2,136 |
| 2009 | #3,677 | 43 | #159 | 2,453 |
| 2008 | #2,855 | 62 | #163 | 2,419 |
| 2007 | #2,457 | 76 | #150 | 2,732 |
| 2006 | #2,555 | 71 | #142 | 2,867 |
| 2005 | #2,457 | 71 | #131 | 3,075 |
| 2004 | #2,044 | 89 | #125 | 3,232 |
| 2003 | #2,556 | 63 | #120 | 3,390 |
| 2002 | #2,379 | 67 | #111 | 3,446 |
| 2001 | #2,013 | 84 | #101 | 3,832 |
| 2000 | #1,719 | 102 | #93 | 4,235 |
| 1999 | #1,442 | 121 | #87 | 4,521 |
| 1998 | #1,392 | 123 | #82 | 4,704 |
| 1997 | #1,419 | 117 | #82 | 4,676 |
| 1996 | #1,519 | 105 | #90 | 4,180 |
| 1995 | #1,456 | 110 | #86 | 4,320 |
| 1994 | #1,594 | 95 | #96 | 3,923 |
| 1993 | #1,538 | 101 | #98 | 3,768 |
| 1992 | #2,318 | 56 | #101 | 3,641 |
| 1991 | #2,989 | 38 | #141 | 2,272 |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 | #220 | 1,387 |
| 1989 | #7,449 | 10 | #220 | 1,235 |
| 1988 | #6,277 | 12 | #259 | 906 |
| 1987 | #6,335 | 11 | #300 | 719 |
| 1986 | #5,757 | 12 | #342 | 561 |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 | #359 | 514 |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | #409 | 407 |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | #407 | 401 |
| 1982 | #6,888 | 9 | #446 | 362 |
| 1981 | — | #504 | 278 | |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | #476 | 311 |
| 1979 | #5,751 | 11 | #476 | 299 |
| 1978 | — | #645 | 169 | |
| 1977 | — | #773 | 121 | |
| 1976 | — | #973 | 73 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,238 | 47 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,501 | 34 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,782 | 25 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,080 | 19 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,558 | 14 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,293 | 16 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,314 | 8 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,735 | 10 | |
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| 1966 | — | #3,249 | 7 | |
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| 1964 | — | #4,039 | 5 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,673 | 10 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,305 | 7 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,652 | 6 | |
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| 1950 | — | #2,770 | 8 | |
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| 1930 | — | #3,289 | 7 | |
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| 1927 | — | #4,210 | 5 | |
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| 1924 | — | #4,347 | 5 | |
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| 1922 | — | #3,872 | 6 | |
| 1921 | — | #3,869 | 6 | |
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| 1918 | — | #4,179 | 5 | |
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| 1916 | — | #3,897 | 5 | |
| 1915 | — | #3,825 | 5 | |
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| 1913 | — | #2,496 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Tanner! It came in at #2,496, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1914–1920, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Tanner
- 34 spots since 2024 (#441 → #475)
- 142 spots since 2020 (#333 → #475)
- 251 spots since 2015 (#224 → #475)
- Biggest jump: 265 spots in 1976 (#1,238 → #973)
- Biggest drop: 52 spots in 2022 (#359 → #411)
- Debuted 1913
- Peaked 1998 at #82 (4,704 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 8 yrs · run 1993–2000
- Top 1,000: 50 yrs · run 1976–2025
- Highest: 1 in 403 boys born in 1997 were named Tanner (0.25%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,665 boys born in 2025 (0.04%)
- Its best rank, #82 in 1998, was only 1 in 406 (0.25%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 38.3% of all boys named Tanner (37,392) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 21 | #2,496 (1913) | #3,599 |
| 1920s | 22 | #3,869 (1921) | #4,075 |
| 1930s | 7 | #3,289 (1930) | #3,289 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 8 | #2,770 (1950) | #2,770 |
| 1960s | 53 | #2,673 (1963) | #3,281 |
| 1970s | 817 | #476 (1979) | #1,432 |
| 1980s | 5,694 | #220 (1989) | #372 |
| 1990s | 37,392 | #82 (1998) | #108 |
| 2000s | 31,681 | #93 (2000) | #130 |
| 2010s | 17,185 | #176 (2010) | #230 |
| 2020s | 4,745 | #333 (2020) | #409 |
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.
Tanner in 2005
Top girls' names in 2005
Top boys' names in 2005
More about 2005
girls
1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 26,026 of them was named Tanner, which outranked 87.2% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,436Yamile72
- #2,436Yanet72
- #2,436Yanira72
- #2,457Tanner71
- #2,457Adelle71
- #2,457Adisyn71
- #2,457Analy71
- #2,482Annalyse70
- #2,482Baleigh70
- #2,482Damia70
Tied with 24 names at #2,457; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,997,305 boys got a published name in 2005; 1 in 650 of them was named Tanner, which outranked 99.0% of the 13,370 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.