Gardiner — boys' name

What the Data Says About Gardiner

The Social Security Administration has registered 195 babies named Gardiner between 1913 and 1979, spanning 67 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Gardiner currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1979. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 13 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Gardiner performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 42 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Gardiner shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Gardiner in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Gardiner in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 195 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.