Warrior
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- WOR-ee-er
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #8,906 for boys
Warrior is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “fighter, soldier”. In 2025 it ranked 8,906th for boys in the US (8 babies).
What does Warrior mean?
English: English word, from Old Northern French werreieor
“fighter, soldier”
English word name, from the Old Northern French for 'one who wages war'.
Is Warrior a girl's or a boy's name?
Warrior is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Warrior in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,906th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 210,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 8 boys in the US were named Warrior, making it the 8,906th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,616th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 14 boys. It first appears in the records in 2013.
Half of all the boys named Warrior in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Warrior in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #8,906 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,341 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,215 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,141 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,582 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,616 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,168 |
| 2018 | 8 | #8,813 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,334 |
| 2016 | 8 | #8,811 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,035 |
| 2014 | 8 | #8,775 |
| 2013 | 6 | #10,722 |
Names like Warrior
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Wylder, Wilder, Caspian, Cassian, Ledger, Baker, Archer, Brewer, Sevyn, Walker, Amias, Rhodes
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie
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, “Warrior: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/warrior, updated 20 October 2026.