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Hunter

Pronounced /ˈhʌntɚ/

Rank in 2024
#128
Born in 2024
2,831
Peak year
2000 · #35
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:306 in 2024 (#879)

1880 to 2024

Cooling
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 2,831 boys were named Hunter, about 1 in every 606.
  • It peaked in 2000 with 12,538 babies, ranked #35.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 259,395 boys 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. <0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
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    Gen X
  5. 1.2
    Millennials
  6. 4.7
    Gen Z
  7. 3.3
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 992 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Silent: 751 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,164 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,861 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Millennials: 35,188 babies, 1.16 per 1,000. Gen Z: 148,588 babies, 4.73 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 70,654 babies, 3.25 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.