first name
WARNER
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 4,082 people named Warner, 69.2% reported their origin as White, 15.6% as Black and 8.3% as Hispanic or Latino. 96.5% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Warner peaked in 1921, when 167 babies got the name.
At least 8,633 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Warner by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #938. The largest share of babies named Warner, 24%, were born between 1928 and 1945, the Silent Generation's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Warner is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Warner has been most common in Virginia (4.2×), Tennessee (2.8×), and Georgia (2.2×), and least common in Wisconsin (0.49×).
3,072 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Exactly as common as Warner
2 other first names also have 4,082 people.
Either side of Warner
Also a last name
As a last name, Warner ranks #394 of 156,621, with 80,118 people. See Warner as a last name
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