Tanner

At the 2020 census, 46,437 Americans bore the surname Tanner — 728th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 6,437.

By the numbers

People: 46,437
Rank: 728th
How common: 1 in 6,437
Per 100,000: 15.5

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Tanner described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 79.4%
Black, not Hispanic 11.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Tanner

Väinö Tanner (1881–1966)Finnish politician, Prime Minister of Finland
Alain Tanner (1929–2022)Swiss film director
Roscoe Tanner (born 1951)US tennis player
Joseph R. Tanner (born 1950)Welsh-American astronaut
Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859–1937)African-American painter
Antwon Tanner (born 1975)American actor
Klaudia Tanner (born 1970)Austrian politician
Elaine Tanner (born 1951)Canadian swimmer, Olympic silver medallist, former world record-holder

People named Tanner with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Tanner

Also a first name

Tanner has been given to 100,166 American babies as a first name since 1913, peaking in 1998. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.