In 2025, 137 US boys were named Warner, making it the 1,365th most common boys’ name of the year, up 136 places from #1,501 in 2024. That is 17 more than the 120 boys named Warner in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #375, reached in 1899. The most boys given the name in a single year was 167, in 1921. For comparison, it was #1,891 in 2015 and #958 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Warner in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 10 babies with the name. In all, 8,633 US babies have been given the name, 0.9% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1930s, with 1,327 babies named Warner.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,198 US boys were named Warner; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 139. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,468 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Warner ranked highest in Indiana in 2025, at #838 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Verner (2,134 babies since 1880).