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I think it is a really 90's name (but) I love Tanner!

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All I can think of is the family from "ALF"...sorry.

The overall sound is okay, but the associations I have with the name and its meaning are unattractive to me. It reminds me of hides as well as tanning salons, tanning spray, etc. "One who tans hides" is not an appealing meaning to me.

I'm not a native English speaker and wasn't familiar with that meaning of "tan", so I can't help but picture someone who spends too much time in tanning salons ... And the real meaning certainly isn't any better! I don't like these "occupational surnames names" at all, especially not when it comes to things like Tanner and Hunter (a young American relative of mine).

When I was a small child, we lived a couple of miles away from a working tannery. Very occasionally when the wind was in the right (or wrong!) direction, we could smell it.

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Before you consider using Tanner, please first find a tannery and drive past it slowly on a working day. Then change your mind for ever.

It's hard for me to consider this name objectively. The Tanner I know is the town druggie/schizo/homeless/drunk, seriously his own caricature; not a bad guy really but not anyone you'd want your child associated with. It's his last name but the one everyone knows him by. So yeah I don't know, outside of that it feels like it's trying too hard to be "not cool"... Like out of Hunter, Cooper, Tucker, Tanner, etc., Tanner's the one smoking behind the school, sort of secretly wishing he was on the football team with Hunter and the rest, but more concerned about his "alternative" image.

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eta - I do know another Tanner also. It is his FN and he's probably around 20 or younger

This message was edited 12/9/2012, 9:44 PM

Hideous. One of my most hated occupation names.

Yeah, I don't care for it. Too soccer mom.

A science teacher I had in freshman year named her son Tanner. I don't like the name, but I don't hate it, either.

Ick.... I just see a person making animal hides.

This is one of my least favorite names. To start with, I generally dislike surnames as first names. And the image of an actual tanner is not very appealing, especially for me because I'm a vegetarian. I would never, ever consider it for my own child, personally. However, I don't think it's too trendy. I've never met one.

GP. It's soap operaish, but I sorta like the sound of it, and it has a sort of outdoorsy image to me, like Canyon but less vivid or "cowboyish," and lacks the pretentiousness of Sawyer. I don't think of tanning hides and I don't really think of surnames. Even though I should. Trendy? I don't think it's faddish but the style of it is fashionable and that makes it seem uh, working class or something ... you know what I mean. Anyway I would never use it or consider it but if I met one I would think it was likeable. Sort of like Hunter or Canyon.

Dogs name

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I've known several people with dogs named Tanner.

Ok, for real, as far as surname-names go this is truly the worst.

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Like... one who tans hides? That process is mad gross, and you probably wouldn't have much connection to it.

I actually really like it, but to me it almost sounds like a dog name.

Y'know, it was trendy for a while, but I always secretly really liked Tanner. For me, Tanner, Sawyer, and Tucker are three surnames I think are really nice. I think it's on the safe side of the line of "too trendy," but it still does get dangerously close.

Very trendy, very unattractive sound. Very much like a sweaty, shirtless cowboy on the cover of a "romance novel" at the drugstore. A cowboy who owns his ranch and despite his sweaty appearance and all the fine horses he supposedly owns, never misses a shower, a shave, a manicure or a chance to buy thousand-dollar boots.

I do think it's trendy, and I dislike the potential nickname of Tan. However, there's something that draws me too it, I think it's cute though I doubt it would age well.