girls:
358 births since 1921
#5358 (6th percentile)
boys:
9.6k births since 1880
#1202 (74th percentile)
overall:
9.9k births since 1880
#2682 (65th percentile)
The name Turner is the #2,682 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,927 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 65.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 65.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,202 (73.8% percentile) for all time with 9,569 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,358 (6.2% percentile) for all time with 358 births since 1921.
Turner has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1921 for girls).
The name Turner has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 90.6% of babies named Turner were boys.
For boys, Turner reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 26.0% percentile (ranked #676) with 125 births per million. The name was most common in 1888, with 208 births per million (ranked 10.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Turner ranks #714 for boys (21.6% percentile) with 110 births per million, which is 53.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Turner reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #938) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2007, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Turner is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #931 (1.7% percentile) with 12 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Turner".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Turner. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 97.7% confident that Turner is pronounced as TER-ner, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TER-nuh, at 2.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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