Baby name
FADING BOY · OLD ENGLISH
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Tanner
/TAN · er/
Meaning
“One who tans leather”
English occupational surname meaning 'one who tans leather', from Old English tannere; adopted as a given name in the US in the 1980s-90s.
How it ages.
Preppy and American; peaked in the 1990s US and will likely feel like that era for decades.
The cultural moment.
Top 100 in the US in the 1990s; declining since 2005.