Meaning not yet researched.
Tanner: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 641 in 2025. Its best rank was #82 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #82 in 1998; #475 in 2025. About 94% of babies named Tanner in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#475 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #82.
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Tanner: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 641 boys in 2025. Peak: #82 in 1998 · most boys in one year: 4,704 (1998).
In 2025, 641 US boys were named Tanner, making it the 475th most common boys’ name of the year, down 32 places from #443 in 2024. That is 73 fewer than the 714 boys named Tanner in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #82, reached in 1998. That year also had the most boys given the name: 4,704. For comparison, it was #224 in 2015 and #2,998 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tanner in 73 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 6 babies. In all, 100,166 US babies have been given the name, 2.5% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 38,267 babies named Tanner.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 9,842 US boys were named Tanner; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,605. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,665 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Tanner ranked highest in New Hampshire in 2025, at #185 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Taner, Tannor and Tannar 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: Taner (579), Tannor (362), Tannar (151), Tanor (61), Tanar (11), Tannyr (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Tanner in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 15 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Hampshire | 8 | #185 | #141 |
| West Virginia | 8 | #250 | #105 |
| Utah | 15 | #325 | #116 |
| Mississippi | 10 | #329 | #189 |
| Pennsylvania | 34 | #331 | #124 |
| Wisconsin | 17 | #336 | #195 |
| Louisiana | 15 | #351 | #188 |
| Idaho | 7 | #371 | #219 |
| Kentucky | 14 | #373 | #184 |
| Tennessee | 22 | #385 | #192 |
| Missouri | 17 | #390 | #180 |
| Oregon | 10 | #397 | #146 |
| North Carolina | 28 | #406 | #195 |
| Michigan | 22 | #408 | #183 |
| Ohio | 27 | #409 | #182 |
| South Carolina | 13 | #412 | #161 |
| Virginia | 19 | #433 | #209 |
| Florida | 44 | #438 | #264 |
| Indiana | 16 | #450 | #173 |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #456 | #321 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #493 | #317 |
| Illinois | 21 | #499 | #236 |
| Minnesota | 11 | #508 | #230 |
| Georgia | 21 | #515 | #237 |
| New Jersey | 15 | #519 | #414 |
| Alabama | 10 | #522 | #142 |
| New York | 30 | #542 | #309 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #547 | #247 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #552 | #361 |
| Washington | 13 | #567 | #281 |
| Nevada | 5 | #592 | #244 |
| Maryland | 8 | #624 | #327 |
| Arizona | 11 | #626 | #240 |
| California | 43 | #657 | #318 |
| Colorado | 8 | #674 | #185 |
| Texas | 36 | #775 | #345 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #3,570 | 641 | #475 |
| 2024 | 51 | #3,169 | 714 | #443 |
| 2023 | 50 | #3,265 | 721 | #432 |
| 2022 | 46 | #3,466 | 784 | #411 |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,207 | 905 | #359 |
| 2020 | 44 | #3,492 | 980 | #333 |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,547 | 1,019 | #328 |
| 2018 | 52 | #3,154 | 1,142 | #302 |
| 2017 | 51 | #3,189 | 1,331 | #272 |
| 2016 | 55 | #3,056 | 1,605 | #238 |
| 2015 | 69 | #2,618 | 1,715 | #224 |
| 2014 | 59 | #2,918 | 1,866 | #207 |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,763 | 2,050 | #197 |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,977 | 2,182 | #178 |
| 2011 | 55 | #3,087 | 2,139 | #182 |
| 2010 | 54 | #3,118 | 2,136 | #176 |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,731 | 2,453 | #159 |
| 2008 | 62 | #2,884 | 2,419 | #163 |
| 2007 | 76 | #2,480 | 2,732 | #150 |
| 2006 | 71 | #2,578 | 2,867 | #142 |
| 2005 | 71 | #2,480 | 3,075 | #131 |
| 2004 | 89 | #2,065 | 3,232 | #125 |
| 2003 | 63 | #2,575 | 3,390 | #120 |
| 2002 | 67 | #2,408 | 3,446 | #112 |
| 2001 | 84 | #2,032 | 3,832 | #101 |
| 2000 | 102 | #1,728 | 4,235 | #93 |
| 1999 | 121 | #1,449 | 4,521 | #87 |
| 1998 | 123 | #1,404 | 4,704 | #82 |
| 1997 | 117 | #1,432 | 4,676 | #82 |
| 1996 | 105 | #1,531 | 4,180 | #90 |
| 1995 | 110 | #1,464 | 4,320 | #86 |
| 1994 | 95 | #1,605 | 3,923 | #96 |
| 1993 | 101 | #1,553 | 3,768 | #98 |
| 1992 | 56 | #2,346 | 3,641 | #101 |
| 1991 | 38 | #3,032 | 2,272 | #141 |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,171 | 1,387 | #220 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,973 | 1,235 | #220 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,630 | 906 | #259 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,750 | 719 | #300 |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,120 | 561 | #343 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,502 | 514 | #359 |
| 1984 | 7 | #9,061 | 407 | #409 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,876 | 401 | #408 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,409 | 362 | #446 |
| 1981 | — | — | 278 | #504 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,987 | 311 | #477 |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,131 | 299 | #477 |
| 1978 | — | — | 169 | #645 |
| 1977 | — | — | 121 | #777 |
| 1976 | — | — | 73 | #976 |
| 1975 | — | — | 47 | #1,256 |
| 1974 | — | — | 34 | #1,517 |
| 1973 | — | — | 25 | #1,813 |
| 1972 | — | — | 19 | #2,150 |
| 1971 | — | — | 14 | #2,672 |
| 1970 | — | — | 16 | #2,390 |
| 1969 | — | — | 8 | #3,563 |
| 1968 | — | — | 10 | #2,886 |
| 1966 | — | — | 7 | #3,506 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,548 |
| 1963 | — | — | 10 | #2,833 |
| 1962 | — | — | 7 | #3,595 |
| 1961 | — | — | 6 | #4,017 |
| 1950 | — | — | 8 | #2,998 |
| 1930 | — | — | 7 | #3,559 |
| 1927 | — | — | 5 | #4,729 |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,882 |
| 1922 | — | — | 6 | #4,258 |
| 1921 | — | — | 6 | #4,273 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,734 |
| 1916 | — | — | 5 | #4,457 |
| 1915 | — | — | 5 | #4,327 |
| 1913 | — | — | 6 | #2,774 |
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).