Hunter
Hunter is ranked 128th among boys in 2024 (2,831 births). Its best rank was 35th, in 2000.
- Rank in 2024
- #128down 13 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2,8310.17% of boys
- Peak year
- 200012,538 births
- Best rank
- #35in 2000
- Since 1880
- 273,451people given the name
The story in the numbers
259,395 boys have been named Hunter in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2000, with 12,538 births — 0.64% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 40 → 128).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2005, and the 2000s alone account for 37%. It has spent 125 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 29 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 14,056 girls have also been given it, 5.1% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Hunter | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 84 | |
| 1890s | 101 | |
| 1900s | 125 | |
| 1910s | 419 | |
| 1920s | 576 | |
| 1930s | 393 | |
| 1940s | 470 | |
| 1950s | 576 | |
| 1960s | 764 | |
| 1970s | 1,214 | |
| 1980s | 5,876 | |
| 1990s | 60,523 | |
| 2000s | 94,858 | |
| 2010s | 74,885 | |
| 2020s | 18,531 |
In 2000, its biggest year
Hunter was the 35th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2000 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 2000.
Names that rose and fell with Hunter
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Justicepeak 2002
- Connorpeak 2004
- Shivampeak 1998
- Caelanpeak 2001
- Aldairpeak 1998
- Keandrepeak 2002
- Sahilpeak 2001
- Colepeak 2002
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.