Warner

Where Warner comes from

* English, Norman, and German surname, all corresponding to German Werner. Also see Warrener. * As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Murnáin (“descendant of Murnán”); see Murnane.
— Wiktionary's entry for Warner
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1879
    Warner Oland born
    Swedish-American actor
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #600 among boys — 10 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1889
    Warner Baxter born
    American actor
  4. 1899
    Peak, #362
    25 babies named Warner — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1902
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #744.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname, of occasional usage.
Namesakes
  • Warner Baxter · American actor, 1889–1951
  • Warner Oland · Swedish-American actor, 1879–1938
  • Warner Hahn · Surinamese association football player, born 1992
  • Warner Anderson · American actor, 1911–1976
  • Warner Tjardus Koiter · Dutch mechanical engineer and Professor of Applied Mechanics, 1914–1997

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.