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Taner

Boys' name

Dawn + soldier, male

Taner has been given to 579 babies in the U.S. since 1976. 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 1994, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Taner, 2022

1 in 564,000

Taner over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Taner: meaning, origin, and history

Dawn + soldier, male

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Taner means

Taner means “dawn + soldier, male”, associated with tan and er.

Origin, language, and formation

Taner is used in Turkish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 579 boys were recorded with the name Taner between 1976 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 35 in 1994; its best national rank was #2,296 in 1994.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Taner?

Taner had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 564,000
6 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 291,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,139 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Taner sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Taner. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Taners were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Taner was born before 1998 — so the typical Taner is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
45.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
51.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
579
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 45.8% of all recorded uses (265).

Is Taner 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1994 (35)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,296
1994

Spellings of Taner

Taner is not the most common spelling — Tyler is, with 56.9% against Taner's 0.05%.

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 Taner is used

Across 1910–2025, Taner was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Taner has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Taner around the world

Where Taner 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2021
    #3,451
    in 2021
  • France
    1976–2005
    #4,741
    in 2005
  • Canada
    1998–2000
    #2,026
    in 2000
  • South Australia
    1995–2004
    #589
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Taner by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,296
1994
Peak year
1994
35 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
579
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Taner

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Taner

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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