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Werner

#8,210 in 2025Boys' name

Cautious; heedful; wary; watchful + army; army leader

Werner has been given to 3,433 babies in the U.S. since 1889. In 2025 it ranked #8,210 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1930, with 93 recorded.

Babies named Werner, 2025

1 in 332,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Werner: meaning, origin, and history

Cautious; heedful; wary; watchful + army; army leader

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Werner means

Werner means “cautious; heedful; wary; watchful + army; army leader”, associated with waraz and harjaz.

Origin, language, and formation

Werner is used in German, Norwegian and Swedish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,433 boys were recorded with the name Werner between 1889 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 93 in 1930; its best national rank was #639 in 1930.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,998 in 2015 to #8,210 in 2025.

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 Werner?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,210
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Werner 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Werner. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Werners were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Werner was born before 1936 — so the typical Werner is around 89 today.

Median birth year
1936
About 89 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
20.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,216
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Choose a decade

1920s — 20.3% of all recorded uses (696).

Is Werner 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
+60
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−212
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.8%
Peak was 1930 (93)
Years since peak
95
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#639
1930

Spellings of Werner

Werner is not the most common spelling — Turner is, with 27.6% against Werner's 9.5%.

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 Werner is used

Across 1910–2025, Werner was most concentrated in Wisconsin — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 64,849 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Wisconsin1 in 20,000
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 25,000
  3. 3New York1 in 33,333
  4. 4Illinois1 in 50,000
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 50,000
  6. 6California1 in 100,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 100,000
  8. 8Nebraska1 in 100,000

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. Werner has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Werner around the world

Where Werner 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.

  • France
    1900–2011
    #6,404
    in 2011
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #448
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1953–1989
    #478
    in 1989

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Werner

People whose public names include Werner, 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.

Werner in other languages

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

VernerVernorVerneri

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

Werner by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,210
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#639
1930
Peak year
1930
93 that year
First recorded
1889
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,433
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Werner

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

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Names with a curve like Werner

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

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Sibling names for Werner

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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