Gardner
Gardner is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 22 births. Its best rank was 662nd, in 1886.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 220.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 191565 births
- Best rank
- #662in 1886
- Since 1880
- 2,997people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,997 boys have been named Gardner in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 65 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1944, and the 1920s alone account for 16%. It has spent 25 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Gardner | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 39 | |
| 1890s | 25 | |
| 1900s | 69 | |
| 1910s | 426 | |
| 1920s | 481 | |
| 1930s | 333 | |
| 1940s | 325 | |
| 1950s | 234 | |
| 1960s | 344 | |
| 1970s | 165 | |
| 1980s | 135 | |
| 1990s | 112 | |
| 2000s | 118 | |
| 2010s | 115 | |
| 2020s | 76 |
In 1915, its biggest year
Gardner was the 743rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1915 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Gardner
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Beecherpeak 1921
- Edmundpeak 1923
- Morrispeak 1918
- Miltonpeak 1920
- Ervinpeak 1921
- Francispeak 1918
- Osbornepeak 1915
- Alphonsepeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.