Turner
Turner is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 223 births. Its best rank was 358th, in 1888.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2230.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2019246 births
- Best rank
- #358in 1888
- Since 1880
- 10,178people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,794 boys have been named Turner in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2019, with 246 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2001, and the 2010s alone account for 23%. It has spent 71 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 384 girls have also been given it, 3.8% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Turner | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 153 | |
| 1890s | 165 | |
| 1900s | 180 | |
| 1910s | 515 | |
| 1920s | 569 | |
| 1930s | 374 | |
| 1940s | 343 | |
| 1950s | 319 | |
| 1960s | 213 | |
| 1970s | 136 | |
| 1980s | 376 | |
| 1990s | 1,361 | |
| 2000s | 1,818 | |
| 2010s | 2,221 | |
| 2020s | 1,051 |
In 2019, its biggest year
Turner was the 889th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2019 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, William and Elijah. See all of 2019.
Names that rose and fell with Turner
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Bishoppeak 2021
- Simonpeak 2015
- Solomonpeak 2016
- Fletcherpeak 2024
- Elishapeak 2008
- Abnerpeak 2024
- Ransompeak 2022
- Mosespeak 2016
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.