Tanner
#3,517 for girls in 2025, 43 births · #475 for boys in 2025, 641 births
Given to boys 97.5% of the time
Showing
- 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
boys
Rank among boys' names. Click any year to open it.
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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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| 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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First appearance
1913
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.
Where Tanner is popular in 1981
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
Top states · boys
- North Dakota#89 · 1 in 420
- Montana#121 · 1 in 646
- South Dakota#128 · 1 in 678
- Kansas#168 · 1 in 1,211
- Nebraska#175 · 1 in 1,544
Best ever in a state: #10 in Wyoming, 2009.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | #89 | 14 | 1 in 420 |
| Montana | #121 | 9 | 1 in 646 |
| South Dakota | #128 | 8 | 1 in 678 |
| Kansas | #168 | 15 | 1 in 1,211 |
| Nebraska | #175 | 8 | 1 in 1,544 |
| Iowa | #182 | 13 | 1 in 1,679 |
| Idaho | #221 | 5 | 1 in 1,635 |
| Minnesota | #225 | 12 | 1 in 2,737 |
| Hawaii | #234 | 6 | 1 in 1,137 |
| Oklahoma | #261 | 11 | 1 in 2,141 |
| Washington | #267 | 13 | 1 in 2,443 |
| Wisconsin | #312 | 8 | 1 in 4,330 |
| Arizona | #340 | 8 | 1 in 2,897 |
| Oregon | #355 | 5 | 1 in 4,014 |
| Utah | #377 | 5 | 1 in 3,803 |
| Colorado | #418 | 5 | 1 in 4,767 |
| Indiana | #433 | 6 | 1 in 6,685 |
| Virginia | #483 | 5 | 1 in 6,913 |
| Texas | #525 | 24 | 1 in 5,739 |
| Florida | #572 | 9 | 1 in 6,995 |
| California | #596 | 24 | 1 in 8,370 |
| Pennsylvania | #645 | 5 | 1 in 15,481 |
| Illinois | #796 | 6 | 1 in 14,105 |
| New York | #881 | 7 | 1 in 16,220 |
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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.
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Momentum · boys
Falling
- 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)
Rise & fade · boys
85 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1913
- Peaked 1998 at #82 (4,704 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 12 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 100 for 8 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 8 yrs · run 1993–2000
- Top 1,000: 50 yrs · run 1976–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 403
- 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
Era · boys
The 1990s
- 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 1981
boys
#504
278 births · 1 in 6,443 boys
Top boys' names in 1981
More about 1981
boys
1,791,177 boys got a published name in 1981; 1 in 6,443 of them was named Tanner, which outranked 93.1% of the 7,289 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Ranked beside Tanner
Biggest movers since 1980
Risers
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.