Tanner
A boys’ name of Old English origin, meaning leather worker; occupational surname.
How Tanner has moved
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| Year | US rank |
|---|---|
| 2015 | #224 |
| 2016 | #237 |
| 2017 | #272 |
| 2018 | #302 |
| 2019 | #329 |
| 2020 | #333 |
| 2021 | #360 |
| 2022 | #410 |
| 2023 | #430 |
| 2024 | #443 |
| 2025 | #475 |
Tanner by the numbers
In 2025, 4 babies in England and Wales were named Tanner. In the US, 1,373 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given far more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 4,702 babies in 1998, making it a 1990s name.
At its height, in 1995, about 1 in 470 American boys born that year was called Tanner.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Tanner. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean a craft or trade
Like Tanner, each of these has a craft or trade in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Masonstone worker13,560 in the US (2017)
- Graysonson of the steward8,767 in the US (2017)
- Skylarscholar, learned one; a modern respelling of Schuyler4,984 in the US (2017)
- Chaseto hunt; one who hunts4,207 in the US (2017)
- Georgefarmer, earth worker3,082 in England and Wales (2025)
- Baileybailiff or steward of a castle2,561 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Tanner
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