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Hunter

Pronounced /ˈhʌntɚ/

Rank in 2024
#879
Born in 2024
306
Peak year
1998 · #304
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:2,831 in 2024 (#128)

1880 to 2024

Steady
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 306 girls were named Hunter, about 1 in every 5,272.
  • It peaked in 1998 with 997 babies, ranked #304.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1902.
  • 14,056 girls have been named Hunter since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Hunter per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. <0.1
    Greatest
  2. 0
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. 0.1
    Millennials
  6. 0.2
    Gen Z
  7. 0.2
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 11 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 5 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 62 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Millennials: 3,219 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Gen Z: 6,721 babies, 0.23 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 4,038 babies, 0.20 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From hunter.

  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈhʌntɚ/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Hunter, CC BY-SA 4.0.