Werner
Where Werner comes from
Werner hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.
Along the way
- 1889First appearance#789 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
- 1901Werner Heisenberg bornGerman theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner
- 1930Peak, #63493 babies named Werner — more than any year before or since.
- 1934The fadeThe first year with half the peak's births — down to #942.
- 1942Werner Herzog bornGerman film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director
In the dictionary
No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.
Namesakes
- Werner Heisenberg · German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner, 1901–1976
- Werner Herzog · German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director, born 1942
- Werner von Siemens · German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist, 1816–1892
- Werner Faymann · Austrian politician who was Chancellor of Austria and chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Austria, born 1960
- Werner Arber · Swiss microbiologist and geneticist, born 1929
Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.