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Boy · Old High German
Werner
Say it: VAIR-ner
Meaning
From Germanic warin 'guard' (or the tribal name of the Varini) and heri 'army'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Very common in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1930s
In the United States
- 3,384 babies given this name since 1889
- At its height in 1930, about 1 in 11,800 boys
- Fewer than 5 babies a year in 2020
Through the ages
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Wernher
| English | Warner |
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Famous bearers
- Werner Heisenberg, physicist
- Werner Herzog, filmmaker
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- Medieval European charters and records
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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