# Werner (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/werner/  
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 | 3,433 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 3,433 / 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 6 | 12,141 |
| 2011 | 11 | 7,475 |
| 2012 | 10 | 8,114 |
| 2013 | 9 | 8,740 |
| 2014 | 8 | 9,586 |
| 2015 | 10 | 8,003 |
| 2016 | 14 | 6,326 |
| 2017 | 11 | 7,511 |
| 2018 | 7 | 10,691 |
| 2019 | 12 | 7,143 |
| 2021 | 11 | 7,555 |
| 2022 | 10 | 8,255 |
| 2023 | 5 | 14,077 |
| 2024 | 10 | 8,275 |
| 2025 | 10 | 8,214 |

## People named Werner

- Werner Herzog, German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director (born 1942)
- Werner von Siemens, German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist (1816–1892)
- Werner Faymann, Austrian politician who was Chancellor of Austria and chairman of the Social Democratic Pa
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German filmmaker, playwright and actor (1945-1982)
- Werner Sombart, German economist, sociologist, historian (1863-1941)
- Werner von Blomberg, German Army field marshal and Military Chief of the Wehrmacht Military Forces (Heer,Luftwa
- Werner von Fritsch, German general (1880–1939)
- Werner Mölders, German officer and fighter pilot during World War II (1913-1941)
- Werner Kohlmeyer, German footballer (1924-1974)
- Werner Liebrich, German footballer (1927–1995)
- Werner Krauss, German actor (1884–1959)
- Werner Schlager, Austrian table tennis player

## 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.