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Warner

#1,365 in 2025Boys' name

Descendant of Murnán

Warner has been given to 8,633 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #1,365 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 167 recorded.

Babies named Warner, 2025

1 in 24,200

Warner over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Warner: meaning, origin, and history

Descendant of Murnán

surname transfer

What Warner means

Warner means “descendant of Murnán”, associated with Murnáin.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

* English, Norman, and German surname, all corresponding to German Werner. Also see Warrener. * As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Murnáin (“descendant of Murnán”); see Murnane.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Warner (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Warner is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Warner is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Werner.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Warner is pronounced /ˈwɔː(ɹ)nə(ɹ)/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,554 boys were recorded with the name Warner between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 167 in 1921; its best national rank was #375 in 1899.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,496 in 2020 to #1,365 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,891 in 2015 to #1,365 in 2025.

In the United States, 79 girls were recorded with the name Warner between 1929 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1956; its best national rank was #4,241 in 1937.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #18,956 in 2015 to #13,106 in 2025.

How common is Warner?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 24,200
137 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 12,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,365
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
16,774 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Warner 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 2025 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 16,774 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Warner. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Warners were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Warner was born before 1945 — so the typical Warner is around 80 today.

Median birth year
1945
About 80 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
15.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,954
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1930s — 15.4% of all recorded uses (1,316).

Is Warner 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
+136
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+131
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+526
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.76×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
82.0%
Peak was 1921 (167)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#375
1899

Spellings of Warner

Warner is not the most common spelling — Walter is, with 35.9% against Warner's 0.49%.

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 Warner is used

Across 2016–2025, Warner was most concentrated in Missouri — about 1 in 5,882 boys, against 1 in 18,351 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

117 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Missouri1 in 5,882
  2. 2Tennessee1 in 6,667
  3. 3Utah1 in 8,333
  4. 4Indiana1 in 10,000
  5. 5Arizona1 in 11,111
  6. 6Ohio1 in 11,111
  7. 7Georgia1 in 12,500
  8. 8Iowa1 in 12,500

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.

Warner around the world

Where Warner 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
    1997–2022
    #4,002
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2002–2023
    #1,727
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Warner

People whose public names include Warner, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Warner in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Warner. Linked forms have their own page here.

Warnar

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Warner by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,365
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 131
Best rank ever
#375
1899
Peak year
1921
167 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,554
Count in 2025
137

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,106
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#4,241
1937
Peak year
1956
7 that year
First recorded
1929
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
79
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Warner

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

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Names with a curve like Warner

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Warner, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Warner

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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