Werner
#7,679 for boys in 2025, 10 births
- Peak · boys
- 1930 · 93 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,433since 1889
Werner over time
Rank among boys' names. Werner has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,679 | 10 |
| 2024 | #7,765 | 10 |
| 2023 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #7,768 | 10 |
| 2021 | #7,089 | 11 |
| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | #6,777 | 12 |
| 2018 | #9,670 | 7 |
| 2017 | #7,095 | 11 |
| 2016 | #6,053 | 14 |
| 2015 | #7,491 | 10 |
| 2014 | #8,781 | 8 |
| 2013 | #8,118 | 9 |
| 2012 | #7,559 | 10 |
| 2011 | #7,009 | 11 |
| 2010 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #8,324 | 9 |
| 2007 | #5,661 | 15 |
| 2006 | #9,585 | 7 |
| 2005 | #10,151 | 6 |
| 2004 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #7,245 | 9 |
| 2002 | #6,088 | 11 |
| 2001 | #4,121 | 19 |
| 2000 | #6,839 | 9 |
| 1999 | #7,874 | 7 |
| 1998 | #6,843 | 8 |
| 1997 | #7,281 | 7 |
| 1996 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #4,508 | 13 |
| 1994 | #5,109 | 11 |
| 1993 | #6,816 | 7 |
| 1992 | #4,564 | 12 |
| 1991 | #3,813 | 15 |
| 1990 | #4,993 | 10 |
| 1989 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | — | |
| 1987 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #4,130 | 10 |
| 1985 | #3,599 | 12 |
| 1984 | #4,215 | 9 |
| 1983 | #4,499 | 8 |
| 1982 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,961 | 7 |
| 1980 | #3,098 | 14 |
| 1979 | #5,355 | 6 |
| 1978 | #3,614 | 10 |
| 1977 | #3,836 | 9 |
| 1976 | #3,724 | 9 |
| 1975 | #4,309 | 7 |
| 1974 | #2,549 | 15 |
| 1973 | #2,606 | 14 |
| 1972 | #2,819 | 12 |
| 1971 | #2,464 | 15 |
| 1970 | #2,125 | 18 |
| 1969 | #1,414 | 32 |
| 1968 | #1,544 | 26 |
| 1967 | #1,364 | 31 |
| 1966 | #1,510 | 26 |
| 1965 | #1,129 | 44 |
| 1964 | #1,172 | 43 |
| 1963 | #1,338 | 34 |
| 1962 | #1,454 | 29 |
| 1961 | #1,250 | 40 |
| 1960 | #1,058 | 53 |
| 1959 | #1,302 | 36 |
| 1958 | #1,114 | 47 |
| 1957 | #1,318 | 35 |
| 1956 | #1,257 | 37 |
| 1955 | #1,181 | 40 |
| 1954 | #1,496 | 26 |
| 1953 | #1,170 | 40 |
| 1952 | #1,615 | 22 |
| 1951 | #1,462 | 26 |
| 1950 | #1,499 | 24 |
| 1949 | #1,702 | 19 |
| 1948 | #1,559 | 22 |
| 1947 | #1,336 | 30 |
| 1946 | #1,475 | 23 |
| 1945 | #1,327 | 25 |
| 1944 | #1,328 | 25 |
| 1943 | #1,053 | 41 |
| 1942 | #1,007 | 44 |
| 1941 | #1,129 | 34 |
| 1940 | #881 | 51 |
| 1939 | #1,015 | 39 |
| 1938 | #869 | 51 |
| 1937 | #764 | 64 |
| 1936 | #906 | 46 |
| 1935 | #757 | 66 |
| 1934 | #942 | 45 |
| 1933 | #762 | 64 |
| 1932 | #722 | 74 |
| 1931 | #684 | 77 |
| 1930 | #634 | 93 |
| 1929 | #729 | 74 |
| 1928 | #708 | 80 |
| 1927 | #716 | 82 |
| 1926 | #694 | 83 |
| 1925 | #835 | 63 |
| 1924 | #897 | 60 |
| 1923 | #791 | 70 |
| 1922 | #958 | 53 |
| 1921 | #901 | 60 |
| 1920 | #792 | 71 |
| 1919 | #799 | 66 |
| 1918 | #818 | 64 |
| 1917 | #687 | 77 |
| 1916 | #662 | 79 |
| 1915 | #675 | 74 |
| 1914 | #758 | 48 |
| 1913 | #818 | 34 |
| 1912 | #970 | 22 |
| 1911 | #856 | 15 |
| 1910 | #928 | 12 |
| 1909 | #1,020 | 9 |
| 1908 | #1,113 | 7 |
| 1907 | #1,200 | 6 |
| 1906 | #927 | 8 |
| 1905 | #1,002 | 7 |
| 1904 | #1,064 | 6 |
| 1903 | #910 | 7 |
| 1902 | #1,137 | 5 |
| 1901 | #779 | 8 |
| 1900 | #1,162 | 6 |
| 1899 | — | |
| 1898 | — | |
| 1897 | #942 | 6 |
| 1896 | — | |
| 1895 | — | |
| 1894 | #787 | 8 |
| 1893 | #836 | 7 |
| 1892 | — | |
| 1891 | — | |
| 1890 | — | |
| 1889 | #789 | 7 |
| 1888 | — | |
| 1887 | — | |
| 1886 | — | |
| 1885 | — | |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five boys were named Werner! It came in at #789, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1890–1892, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Werner is popular in 1956
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#600 · 1 in 17,627
- California#919 · 1 in 33,551
Best ever in a state: #177 in South Dakota, 1927.
Show every state
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| New York | #600 | 10 | 1 in 17,627 |
| California | #919 | 5 | 1 in 33,551 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Werner
- 86 spots since 2024 (#7,765 → #7,679)
- 188 spots since 2015 (#7,491 → #7,679)
- Biggest jump: 383 spots in 1901 (#1,162 → #779)
- Biggest drop: 358 spots in 1902 (#779 → #1,137)
- Debuted 1889
- Peaked 1930 at #634 (93 births)
- Births halved by 1934, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 37 yrs · run 1910–1938
- Highest: 1 in 11,267 boys born in 1916 were named Werner (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 170,808 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #634 in 1930, was only 1 in 11,800 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 20.3% of all boys named Werner (696) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 7 | #789 (1889) | #789 |
| 1890s | 21 | #787 (1894) | #855 |
| 1900s | 69 | #779 (1901) | #1,031 |
| 1910s | 491 | #662 (1916) | #797 |
| 1920s | 696 | #694 (1926) | #802 |
| 1930s | 619 | #634 (1930) | #806 |
| 1940s | 314 | #881 (1940) | #1,280 |
| 1950s | 333 | #1,114 (1958) | #1,341 |
| 1960s | 358 | #1,058 (1960) | #1,323 |
| 1970s | 115 | #2,125 (1970) | #3,340 |
| 1980s | 72 | #3,098 (1980) | #4,710 |
| 1990s | 96 | #3,813 (1991) | #5,977 |
| 2000s | 98 | #4,121 (2001) | #7,836 |
| 2010s | 98 | #6,053 (2016) | #7,932 |
| 2020s | 46 | #7,089 (2021) | #8,508 |
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.
Werner in 1956
Top boys' names in 1956
More about 1956
boys
2,115,302 boys got a published name in 1956; 1 in 57,170 of them was named Werner, which outranked 71.8% of the 4,455 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,232Samual38
- #1,232Tedd38
- #1,232Thurston38
- #1,257Werner37
- #1,257Adolphus37
- #1,257Antone37
- #1,257Brenda37
- #1,285Anthoney36
- #1,285Dickey36
- #1,285Durwin36
Tied with 27 names at #1,257; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.