Garner
Garner is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 18 births. Its best rank was 675th, in 1932.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 180.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 193282 births
- Best rank
- #675in 1932
- Since 1881
- 2,317people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,263 boys have been named Garner in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1932, with 82 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1958, and the 1930s alone account for 14%. It has spent 5 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 54 girls have also been given it, 2.3% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Garner | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 12 | |
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1900s | 32 | |
| 1910s | 212 | |
| 1920s | 256 | |
| 1930s | 320 | |
| 1940s | 167 | |
| 1950s | 160 | |
| 1960s | 199 | |
| 1970s | 138 | |
| 1980s | 88 | |
| 1990s | 132 | |
| 2000s | 218 | |
| 2010s | 224 | |
| 2020s | 100 |
In 1932, its biggest year
Garner was the 675th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1932 were Robert, James, John, William and Richard. See all of 1932.
Names that rose and fell with Garner
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Reynoldspeak 1923
- Coypeak 1926
- Elvinpeak 1927
- Thurstonpeak 1918
- Raymonpeak 1926
- Hollispeak 1921
- Carminepeak 2006
- Franklynpeak 1933
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.