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Tannor

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Origin
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Tannor is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “leather tanner”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Tannor mean?

English: variant spelling of Tanner

“leather tanner”

Variant of Tanner, an English occupational surname for someone who tanned animal hides into leather.

Is Tannor a girl's or a boy's name?

Tannor is a boys' name.

How popular is Tannor in the US?

No boys in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1997, with 34 boys. It first appears in the records in 1991.

Half of all the boys named Tannor in the US since 1880 were born between 1997 and 2007, the years shaded on the chart below.

1991Busiest: 34 in 19972017
Tannor in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20175#12,241
20160–
20159#8,035
20147#9,636
20136#10,722
20127#9,703
201112#6,572
20106#10,759
200912#6,798
200815#5,762
200717#5,207
200615#5,521
200513#5,869
200414#5,487
200316#4,810
200217#4,496
200124#3,507
200022#3,634
199926#3,099
199821#3,482
199734#2,393
199615#4,179
199516#3,848
19949#5,862
19938#6,221
19926#7,414
199110#5,088

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Tannor: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/tannor, updated 20 October 2026.