Baby name

FADING BOY · OLD ENGLISH
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Tanner

/TAN · er/


“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.

tan

gentle

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.