Banner
#2,151 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Banner has been given to 834 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #2,151 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 67 recorded.
Babies named Banner, 2025
1 in 49,500
Banner over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Banner?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 49,500
- 67 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 25,500
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,151
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 34,298 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Banner sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 34,298 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Banner. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Banners were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Banner was born before 2019 — so the typical Banner is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 46.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 91.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 750
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 46.8% of all recorded uses (374).
Is Banner rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +138
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −36
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +819
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.72×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2023 (67)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.5% average annual change
Spellings of Banner
Banner is not the most common spelling — Tanner is, with 30.1% against Banner's 0.25%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Banner is used
Across 2016–2025, Banner was most concentrated in Kansas — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 65,078 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Banner around the world
Where Banner ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- Canada2023–2023#3,103in 2023
- South Australia2007–2007#680in 2007
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Banner by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Banner
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Banner
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.