Boy
Tanner
Tanner means "Middle English occupational surname" and comes from Middle English, giving it real etymological depth as a boy's name. It peaked back in the 1990s and has been gradually easing since. In the current registry, it is a name plenty of people share. 1998 was this name's high-water mark in the U.S. birth records.
Middle EnglishMiddle English occupational surname
Etymology"Leather tanner"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
21
1920s
22
1930s
7
1940s
0
1950s
8
1960s
55
1970s
827
1980s
5,778
1990s
38,262
2000s
32,402
2010s
15,446
Peaked in the 1990s · 92,828 total U.S. births since 1900