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Palmer

Pronounced /ˈpɑmɚ/

Rank in 2024
#1,075
Born in 2024
202
Peak year
2023 · #939
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:1,221 in 2024 (#258)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 202 boys were named Palmer, about 1 in every 8,492.
  • It peaked in 2023 with 240 babies, ranked #939.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 9,035 boys have been named Palmer since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Palmer per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

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    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 2,305 babies, 0.14 per 1,000. Silent: 1,439 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Boomers: 839 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen X: 348 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 511 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,295 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 2,039 babies, 0.09 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Middle English palmer (“a pilgrim from the Holy Land”), from Old French.

  • (countable) A male given name.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈpɑmɚ/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Palmer, CC BY-SA 4.0.