# Wagner (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/wagner/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 347 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 347 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 15 | 6,072 |
| 2010 | 6 | 12,136 |
| 2011 | 9 | 8,727 |
| 2012 | 8 | 9,663 |
| 2013 | 7 | 10,669 |
| 2015 | 9 | 8,705 |
| 2016 | 11 | 7,570 |
| 2017 | 10 | 8,108 |
| 2019 | 7 | 10,751 |
| 2020 | 12 | 7,012 |
| 2021 | 5 | 13,956 |
| 2022 | 8 | 9,772 |
| 2023 | 7 | 10,748 |
| 2024 | 13 | 6,804 |
| 2025 | 10 | 8,212 |

## People named Wagner

- Wagner Lopes, Brazilian-Japanese association football player and manager
- Wagner Moura, Brazilian actor (born 1976)
- Wagner Pereira Cardozo, Brazilian association football player (1966-)
- Wágner Pires de Almeida, Brazilian association football player
- Wagner Pina, Cape Verdean footballer (born 2002)
- Wágner Ferreira dos Santos, Brazilian footballer
- Wagner Domingos, Brazilian hammer thrower
- Wagner Lamounier, Brazilian musician
- Wagner da Silva Souza, Brazilian association football player
- Wágner de Andrade Borges, Brazilian association football player
- Wagner Renan Ribeiro, Brazilian footballer
- Mr. Catra, Brazilian composer and musician (1968-2018)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.