In 2025, 67 US boys were named Banner, making it the 2,151st most common boys’ name of the year, up 138 places from #2,289 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 62 boys named Banner in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,115, reached in 2020. The most boys given the name in a single year was 67, in 2025. For comparison, it was #2,971 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Banner in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 10 babies. In all, 834 US babies have been given the name, 4.2% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 386 babies named Banner.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 542 US boys were named Banner; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 67. In 2025 that was about 1 in 25,494 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Banner ranked highest in Kansas in 2025, at #598 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.