Is Palmer a male or female name?
Palmer is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in Canada at 69% and male usage in United States at 53%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- male
- Probability
- 52%
- Sample size
- 17,595
- Confidence
- high
Palmer by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | male | 53% | 17,078 | ssa |
| Canada CA | female | 69% | 404 | statcan |
| England and Wales GB | female | 66% | 113 | ons |
Attested in 7 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AU · BE · CA · GB · IN · SE · US
Palmer over time
In the United States, 0% of the babies named Palmer in the 1890s were girls, against 83.8% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 0% | 142 |
| 1900s | 3% | 234 |
| 1910s | 4% | 1,069 |
| 1920s | 4% | 1,349 |
| 1930s | 2% | 829 |
| 1940s | 5% | 661 |
| 1950s | 9% | 480 |
| 1960s | 11% | 354 |
| 1970s | 0% | 189 |
| 1980s | 7% | 271 |
| 1990s | 11% | 550 |
| 2000s | 14% | 928 |
| 2010s | 64% | 3,594 |
| 2020s | 84% | 6,332 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Palmer with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Palmer
Is Palmer a male or female name?
Palmer is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in Canada at 69% and male usage in United States at 53%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Palmer change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Palmer identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.