Tanner
Tanner was given to 641 boys in 2025, #475 among boys’ names; 100,166 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 97,700 Americans named Tanner and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 17 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tanner by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tanner mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tanner is “a male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.”
/ˈtænɚ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tanner?
#475 among boys’ names, 2025
Tanner fell from #224 in 2015 to #475 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.89 to 0.38 per 1,000.
4,827 babies in 1998, the peak
Tanner peaked in 1998, when 4,827 babies were given it (4,704 boys, #82 among boys’ names). The 684 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 14% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 641 | #475 | 0.38 |
| 2024 | 714 | #443 | 0.41 |
| 2023 | 721 | #432 | 0.42 |
| 2022 | 784 | #411 | 0.45 |
| 2021 | 905 | #359 | 0.52 |
| 2020 | 980 | #333 | 0.57 |
| 2019 | 1,019 | #328 | 0.57 |
| 2018 | 1,142 | #302 | 0.63 |
| 2017 | 1,331 | #272 | 0.72 |
| 2016 | 1,605 | #238 | 0.85 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,715 | #224 | 0.89 |
| 2014 | 1,866 | #207 | 1.0 |
| 2013 | 2,050 | #197 | 1.1 |
| 2012 | 2,182 | #178 | 1.2 |
| 2011 | 2,139 | #182 | 1.1 |
| 2010 | 2,136 | #176 | 1.1 |
| 2009 | 2,453 | #159 | 1.2 |
| 2008 | 2,419 | #163 | 1.2 |
| 2007 | 2,732 | #150 | 1.3 |
| 2006 | 2,867 | #142 | 1.4 |
| 2005 | 3,075 | #131 | 1.5 |
| 2004 | 3,232 | #125 | 1.6 |
| 2003 | 3,390 | #120 | 1.7 |
| 2002 | 3,446 | #112 | 1.8 |
| 2001 | 3,832 | #101 | 2.0 |
| 2000 | 4,235 | #93 | 2.2 |
| 1999 | 4,521 | #87 | 2.4 |
| 1998 | 4,704 | #82 | 2.5 |
| 1997 | 4,676 | #82 | 2.5 |
| 1996 | 4,180 | #90 | 2.2 |
| 1995 | 4,320 | #86 | 2.3 |
| 1994 | 3,923 | #96 | 2.0 |
| 1993 | 3,768 | #98 | 1.9 |
| 1992 | 3,641 | #101 | 1.8 |
| 1991 | 2,272 | #141 | 1.1 |
| 1990 | 1,387 | #220 | 0.68 |
| 1989 | 1,235 | #220 | 0.62 |
| 1988 | 906 | #259 | 0.47 |
| 1987 | 719 | #300 | 0.39 |
| 1986 | 561 | #343 | 0.30 |
| 1985 | 514 | #359 | 0.28 |
| 1984 | 407 | #409 | 0.23 |
| 1983 | 401 | #408 | 0.22 |
| 1982 | 362 | #446 | 0.20 |
| 1981 | 278 | #504 | 0.16 |
| 1980 | 311 | #477 | 0.17 |
| 1979 | 299 | #477 | 0.17 |
| 1978 | 169 | #645 | 0.10 |
| 1977 | 121 | #777 | 0.07 |
| 1976 | 73 | #976 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 47 | #1,256 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 34 | #1,517 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 25 | #1,813 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 19 | #2,150 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 14 | #2,671 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 16 | #2,389 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,562 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 10 | #2,885 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,505 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,547 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,832 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,594 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #4,016 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 8 | #2,997 | under 0.01 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,557 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,727 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,880 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,256 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,271 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,733 | under 0.01 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,455 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,325 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,773 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tanner a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 100,166 Americans recorded as Tanner, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 43 girls and 641 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tanner: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tanner, and how old are they?
97,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 100,166 Americans ever recorded as Tanner. The median Tanner alive today is 25 years old; half are between 17 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 86,959 people named Tanner (2,094 women and girls, 84,865 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 93,728 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 27 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,070 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 28,300 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 52,300 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 16,000 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Tanner born?
The states with the most babies named Tanner are Florida, California and Texas, with 21% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 44 | #438 | 0.7× |
| California | 43 | #657 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 41 | #775 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 34 | #331 | 0.9× |
| New York | 30 | #542 | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 28 | #406 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 27 | #409 | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 22 | #385 | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 22 | #408 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 21 | #499 | 0.6× |
Where Tanner is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tanner is most over-represented in Montana: since 1913 it was given 3.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Tanner with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 101,319 babies since 1880, Tanner is the most given (99% of them). In 2025 it was given to 684 of their 684 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Tanner
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Tanner and names like it
- Compare Tanner and TanerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTanner peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tanner since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Tanner: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Tanner.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tanner alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.