Meaning not yet researched.
Gardner: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 19 in 2025. Its best rank was #662 in 1886.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #662 in 1886; #5,094 in 2025. About 79% of babies named Gardner in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,094 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1886, at #662.
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Gardner: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 19 boys in 2025. Peak: #662 in 1886 · most boys in one year: 65 (1915).
In 2025, 19 US boys were named Gardner, making it the 5,094th most common boys’ name of the year, down 484 places from #4,610 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 22 boys named Gardner in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #662, reached in 1886. The most boys given the name in a single year was 65, in 1915. For comparison, it was #7,232 in 2015 and #1,407 in 1950.
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Gardner, making it the 15,692nd most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #15,692, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 5. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gardner in 135 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 3,026 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 481 babies named Gardner.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 144 US boys were named Gardner; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 22. In 2025 that was about 1 in 89,899 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Gardiner are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Gardiner (195).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Gardner in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,692 | 19 | #5,094 |
| 2024 | — | — | 22 | #4,610 |
| 2023 | — | — | 17 | #5,534 |
| 2022 | — | — | 14 | #6,254 |
| 2021 | — | — | 12 | #6,841 |
| 2020 | — | — | 11 | #7,178 |
| 2019 | — | — | 16 | #5,647 |
| 2018 | — | — | 11 | #7,289 |
| 2017 | — | — | 15 | #5,890 |
| 2016 | — | — | 7 | #10,000 |
| 2015 | — | — | 11 | #7,232 |
| 2014 | — | — | 6 | #11,179 |
| 2013 | — | — | 10 | #7,709 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,767 | 8 | #9,142 |
| 2011 | — | — | 17 | #5,280 |
| 2010 | — | — | 14 | #6,150 |
| 2009 | — | — | 8 | #9,267 |
| 2008 | — | — | 14 | #6,179 |
| 2007 | — | — | 13 | #6,381 |
| 2006 | — | — | 12 | #6,600 |
| 2005 | — | — | 9 | #7,856 |
| 2004 | — | — | 12 | #6,259 |
| 2003 | — | — | 7 | #8,981 |
| 2002 | — | — | 10 | #6,702 |
| 2001 | — | — | 17 | #4,553 |
| 2000 | — | — | 16 | #4,654 |
| 1999 | — | — | 7 | #8,151 |
| 1998 | — | — | 11 | #5,596 |
| 1997 | — | — | 14 | #4,524 |
| 1996 | — | — | 8 | #6,706 |
| 1995 | — | — | 12 | #4,896 |
| 1994 | — | — | 11 | #5,211 |
| 1993 | — | — | 14 | #4,316 |
| 1992 | — | — | 9 | #5,801 |
| 1991 | — | — | 13 | #4,313 |
| 1990 | — | — | 13 | #4,251 |
| 1989 | — | — | 14 | #3,879 |
| 1988 | — | — | 15 | #3,411 |
| 1987 | — | — | 13 | #3,597 |
| 1986 | — | — | 8 | #5,022 |
| 1985 | — | — | 15 | #3,124 |
| 1984 | — | — | 18 | #2,641 |
| 1983 | — | — | 17 | #2,706 |
| 1982 | — | — | 15 | #3,017 |
| 1981 | — | — | 7 | #5,122 |
| 1980 | — | — | 13 | #3,317 |
| 1979 | — | — | 13 | #3,229 |
| 1978 | — | — | 15 | #2,834 |
| 1977 | — | — | 11 | #3,462 |
| 1976 | — | — | 17 | #2,539 |
| 1975 | — | — | 15 | #2,677 |
| 1974 | — | — | 13 | #2,860 |
| 1973 | — | — | 16 | #2,439 |
| 1972 | — | — | 20 | #2,036 |
| 1971 | — | — | 25 | #1,803 |
| 1970 | — | — | 20 | #2,018 |
| 1969 | — | — | 24 | #1,696 |
| 1968 | — | — | 24 | #1,622 |
| 1967 | — | — | 26 | #1,521 |
| 1966 | — | — | 29 | #1,433 |
| 1965 | — | — | 33 | #1,342 |
| 1964 | — | — | 33 | #1,375 |
| 1963 | — | — | 45 | #1,157 |
| 1962 | — | — | 53 | #1,051 |
| 1961 | — | — | 43 | #1,212 |
| 1960 | — | — | 34 | #1,372 |
| 1959 | — | — | 26 | #1,569 |
| 1958 | — | — | 13 | #2,302 |
| 1957 | — | — | 14 | #2,220 |
| 1956 | — | — | 29 | #1,460 |
| 1955 | — | — | 22 | #1,656 |
| 1954 | — | — | 26 | #1,508 |
| 1953 | — | — | 32 | #1,344 |
| 1952 | — | — | 23 | #1,595 |
| 1951 | — | — | 22 | #1,614 |
| 1950 | — | — | 27 | #1,407 |
| 1949 | — | — | 32 | #1,285 |
| 1948 | — | — | 35 | #1,222 |
| 1947 | — | — | 33 | #1,281 |
| 1946 | — | — | 36 | #1,164 |
| 1945 | — | — | 31 | #1,189 |
| 1944 | — | — | 40 | #1,044 |
| 1943 | — | — | 30 | #1,267 |
| 1942 | — | — | 29 | #1,305 |
| 1941 | — | — | 28 | #1,261 |
| 1940 | — | — | 31 | #1,216 |
| 1939 | — | — | 27 | #1,282 |
| 1938 | — | — | 30 | #1,203 |
| 1937 | — | — | 33 | #1,155 |
| 1936 | — | — | 34 | #1,127 |
| 1935 | — | — | 30 | #1,231 |
| 1934 | — | — | 37 | #1,081 |
| 1933 | — | — | 34 | #1,130 |
| 1932 | — | — | 35 | #1,146 |
| 1931 | — | — | 37 | #1,116 |
| 1930 | — | — | 36 | #1,178 |
| 1929 | — | — | 45 | #1,017 |
| 1928 | — | — | 43 | #1,062 |
| 1927 | — | — | 32 | #1,304 |
| 1926 | — | — | 50 | #970 |
| 1925 | — | — | 41 | #1,094 |
| 1924 | — | — | 55 | #948 |
| 1923 | — | — | 45 | #1,065 |
| 1922 | — | — | 58 | #917 |
| 1921 | — | — | 56 | #941 |
| 1920 | — | — | 56 | #925 |
| 1919 | — | — | 58 | #868 |
| 1918 | — | — | 57 | #883 |
| 1917 | — | — | 61 | #811 |
| 1916 | — | — | 58 | #815 |
| 1915 | — | — | 65 | #743 |
| 1914 | — | — | 43 | #805 |
| 1913 | — | — | 32 | #861 |
| 1912 | — | — | 23 | #951 |
| 1911 | — | — | 12 | #1,003 |
| 1910 | — | — | 17 | #739 |
| 1909 | — | — | 12 | #864 |
| 1908 | — | — | 10 | #907 |
| 1906 | — | — | 7 | #1,052 |
| 1905 | — | — | 8 | #956 |
| 1904 | — | — | 9 | #835 |
| 1903 | — | — | 6 | #1,060 |
| 1902 | — | — | 6 | #1,058 |
| 1901 | — | — | 5 | #1,112 |
| 1900 | — | — | 6 | #1,222 |
| 1899 | — | — | 5 | #1,104 |
| 1898 | — | — | 7 | #920 |
| 1895 | — | — | 6 | #1,018 |
| 1891 | — | — | 7 | #801 |
| 1889 | — | — | 5 | #1,025 |
| 1888 | — | — | 6 | #963 |
| 1887 | — | — | 7 | #777 |
| 1886 | — | — | 9 | #662 |
| 1884 | — | — | 7 | #804 |
| 1880 | — | — | 5 | #962 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).