Werner
The boy's name Werner has been in the national records since 1889, with 3,433 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 7,679th. About 1,200 Werners are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 60.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Werner
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,433
- Estimated living today
- 1,200
- Median age today
- 60
- Peak year
- 1930
- Best rank
- 634th
- Rank in 2025
- 7,679th
- First recorded
- 1889
How old the living Werners are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,433 babies given the name since 1889, about 1,200 are alive — 36 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1965 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Werners
- Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976)German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner
- Werner Herzog (born 1942)German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director
- Werner von Siemens (1816–1892)German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist
- Werner Faymann (born 1960)Austrian politician who was Chancellor of Austria and chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Austria
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945–1982)German filmmaker, playwright and actor
- Werner Arber (born 1929)Swiss microbiologist and geneticist
- Werner Forssmann (1904–1979)German physician, Nobel prize winner
- Werner Sombart (1863–1941)German economist, sociologist, historian
People named Werner with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Werner is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Werner is most concentrated in Wisconsin (6.5×), Minnesota (4.3×), New York (3.7×), New Jersey (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1930
The most popular boys’ names the year Werner peaked:
Werner elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Werner | 1,200 | 154th |
| Norway boys | Werner | 653 | 208th |
| Austria boys | Werner | 442 | 54th |
| Belgium boys | Werner | 10 | 1,016th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Werner among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Werner | 2,380 | 3,749 |
| Finland boys | Werner | 165 | 669 |
| the Netherlands girls | Werner | — | 83 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Werner lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 281 men called Werner were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Werner | 31 | 0.058 | 1,420 |
| Balears, Illes | Werner | 34 | 0.055 | 1,115 |
| Palmas, Las | Werner | 26 | 0.045 | 1,735 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Werner | 43 | 0.043 | 1,495 |
| Málaga | Werner | 35 | 0.040 | 1,294 |
| Girona | Werner | 14 | 0.034 | 1,683 |
Listed in 9 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 43 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.