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Gardner
OriginEnglish
Meaning"keeper of the garden"
GenderBoy & girl
US rank · girls#15692
2025 SSA
US rank · boys#5094
2025 SSA
About Gardner
One of the best of this fashionable occupational group, strong and particularly well suited to a girl, also with alluring connection to glamour girl Ava Gardner.
Gardner for boys#5094 US
Surely one of the most pleasant and evocative of the occupational options.
Pronounced GARD-ner.
As of October 2026, Gardner ranked #15692 in US births in 2025 SSA.
Popularity & trends
US popularity — history
US rank, lower is more popular · SSA data 2014–2025
Actual · SSA
20142025
18802025
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | #4,599 | 22 | 12.8 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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