# Warner (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/warner/  
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 | “descendant of murnán” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈwɔː(ɹ)nə(ɹ)/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 8,633 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 8,554 / 79 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 14, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

* English, Norman, and German surname, all corresponding to German Werner. Also see Warrener. * As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Murnáin (“descendant of Murnán”); see Murnane.

## 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, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1929 | 6 | 4,548 |
| 1936 | 5 | 4,834 |
| 1937 | 6 | 4,243 |
| 1940 | 5 | 5,005 |
| 1945 | 5 | 5,217 |
| 1955 | 5 | 6,709 |
| 1956 | 7 | 5,314 |
| 2012 | 5 | 19,394 |
| 2015 | 5 | 18,962 |
| 2017 | 5 | 18,304 |
| 2019 | 6 | 15,440 |
| 2023 | 5 | 17,467 |
| 2024 | 7 | 13,392 |
| 2025 | 7 | 13,110 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 48 | 2,587 |
| 2012 | 74 | 1,939 |
| 2013 | 57 | 2,276 |
| 2014 | 70 | 2,042 |
| 2015 | 78 | 1,891 |
| 2016 | 83 | 1,826 |
| 2017 | 113 | 1,497 |
| 2018 | 135 | 1,342 |
| 2019 | 102 | 1,623 |
| 2020 | 114 | 1,496 |
| 2021 | 139 | 1,338 |
| 2022 | 127 | 1,439 |
| 2023 | 128 | 1,431 |
| 2024 | 120 | 1,501 |
| 2025 | 137 | 1,365 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 3 | 2,859 |
| 2017 | 3 | 4,812 |
| 2019 | 4 | 3,937 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,001 |

## In other languages

- Catalan: Guarner
- Danish: Verner
- Estonian: Verner
- Finnish: Verneri
- German: Werner
- Italian: Guarnieri, Guarnierio, Varnerio, Irnerio
- Latvian: Verners
- Swedish: Verner

## People named Warner

- Warner Baxter, American actor (1889–1951)
- Warner Anderson, American actor (1911–1976)
- Warner Tjardus Koiter, Dutch mechanical engineer and Professor of Applied Mechanics (1914-1997)
- Warner Richmond, actor (1886-1948)
- H. Warner Munn, American writer of fantasy, horror and poetry (1903–1981)
- Warner Mack, American musician (1938–2022)
- John Backus, American computer scientist (1924–2007)
- Albert Overhauser, American physicist (1925–2011)
- Lewis W. Green, American minister and university president
- W. Max Corden, Australian economist (1927–2023)

## 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.