Gardiner
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Gardiner has been given to 195 babies in the U.S. since 1913. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1918, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Gardiner, 1979
1 in 554,000
Gardiner 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Gardiner?
Gardiner had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1979, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1979
- 1 in 554,000
- 6 of 3,326,731 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 287,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1979
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 384,320 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Gardiner sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1979 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 384,320 children born in 1979 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gardiner. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Gardiners were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Gardiner was born before 1935 — so the typical Gardiner is around 90 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 21.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 26.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 68
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 21.5% of all recorded uses (42).
Is Gardiner 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1918 (13)
- Years since peak
- 107
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.7% average annual change
Spellings of Gardiner
Gardiner is not the most common spelling — Gardner is, with 54.9% against Gardiner's 3.6%.
Where Gardiner is used
Across 1910–2025, Gardiner was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,834,433 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Pennsylvania1 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. Gardiner has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Gardiner around the world
Where Gardiner 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.
- South Australia1989–1989#478in 1989
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Gardiner by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Gardiner
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Gardiner
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.