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
- Peak · boys
- 2020 · 66 births
- Debut · boys
- 10 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 799since 1916
Banner over time
Rank among boys' names. Banner has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
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 | — | #2,145 | 67 | |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | #2,288 | 62 |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 | #2,147 | 67 |
| 2022 | — | #2,753 | 47 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,173 | 65 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,113 | 66 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,993 | 40 | |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #2,848 | 42 |
| 2017 | — | #2,891 | 41 | |
| 2016 | #16,215 | 5 | #2,689 | 45 |
| 2015 | — | #2,966 | 39 | |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #3,532 | 30 |
| 2013 | — | #3,405 | 31 | |
| 2012 | — | #7,050 | 11 | |
| 2011 | — | #8,079 | 9 | |
| 2010 | — | #5,047 | 18 | |
| 2009 | — | #7,692 | 10 | |
| 2008 | — | #9,871 | 7 | |
| 2007 | — | #10,921 | 6 | |
| 2006 | — | #10,662 | 6 | |
| 2005 | — | #11,472 | 5 | |
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| 2002 | #12,187 | 7 | #5,131 | 14 |
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| 1998 | — | #8,479 | 6 | |
| 1997 | — | #8,110 | 6 | |
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| 1944 | — | #3,430 | 5 | |
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| 1937 | — | #3,518 | 5 | |
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| 1933 | — | #3,642 | 5 | |
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| 1928 | — | #3,697 | 6 | |
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| 1921 | — | #4,322 | 5 | |
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| 1919 | — | #3,736 | 6 | |
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| 1917 | — | #3,217 | 7 | |
| 1916 | — | #2,543 | 10 | |
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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.
Where Banner is popular in 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Tennessee#964 · 1 in 6,815
- North Carolina#1,056 · 1 in 8,157
- Florida#1,724 · 1 in 18,042
- Texas#1,799 · 1 in 21,156
Best ever in a state: #494 in North Carolina, 1917.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Tennessee | #964 | 5 | 1 in 6,815 |
| North Carolina | #1,056 | 6 | 1 in 8,157 |
| Florida | #1,724 | 5 | 1 in 18,042 |
| Texas | #1,799 | 8 | 1 in 21,156 |
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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 Banner
- 143 spots since 2024 (#2,288 → #2,145)
- 32 spots since 2020 (#2,113 → #2,145)
- 821 spots since 2015 (#2,966 → #2,145)
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 2020 at #2,113 (66 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 46.8% of all boys named Banner (374) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 23 | #2,543 (1916) | #3,165 |
| 1920s | 11 | #3,697 (1928) | #4,010 |
| 1930s | 10 | #3,518 (1937) | #3,580 |
| 1940s | 5 | #3,430 (1944) | #3,430 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 22 | #8,110 (1997) | #8,576 |
| 2000s | 48 | #5,131 (2002) | #9,292 |
| 2010s | 306 | #2,689 (2016) | #4,150 |
| 2020s | 374 | #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 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 26,153 of them was named Banner, which outranked 85.0% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,094Samar67
- #2,094Valen67
- #2,094Wendell67
- #2,113Banner66
- #2,113Alpha66
- #2,113Arlen66
- #2,113Burke66
- #2,139Akai65
- #2,139Amen65
- #2,139Avett65
Tied with 25 names at #2,113; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.