Palmer Boy Name

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The name Palmer is of English origin, and means carrying palm branches. The table below indicates the number of times the name Palmer has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Palmer**
Use of the Name Palmer for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
4,273	57	0	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Palmer has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Palmer last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1955, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Palmer**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	628	10
1881	688	8
1882	483	15
1883
1884	948	6
1885	750	8
1886	567	12
1887	507	13
1888	497	16
1889	773	8
1890	659	10
1891	468	15
1892	741	10
1893	499	15
1894	478	18
1895	600	13
1896	666	12
1897	400	23
1898	537	16
1899	700	10
1900	532	21
1901	433	20
1902	725	11
1903	444	22
1904	509	19
1905	544	19
1906	429	27
1907	507	22
1908	386	37
1909	481	29
1910	580	25
1911	456	42
1912	467	72
1913	469	85
1914	552	81
1915	479	135
1916	488	136
1917	493	135
1918	451	173
1919	502	141
1920	506	144
1921	492	158
1922	487	161
1923	519	138
1924	571	125
1925	544	129
1926	568	118
1927	635	99
1928	601	106
1929	551	115
1930	617	100
1931	617	93
1932	644	88
1933	608	92
1934	732	70
1935	609	92
1936	635	83
1937	717	71
1938	816	58
1939	800	59
1940	747	68
1941	722	74
1942	746	74
1943	722	80
1944	772	66
1945	963	45
1946	942	51
1947	922	58
1948	945	54
1949	921	57
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955	997	57
Totals:		4,273		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Palmer as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Palmer appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 70 times during the last 125 years.

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