Meaning not yet researched.
Gunner: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 597 in 2025. Its best rank was #235 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #235 in 2014; #506 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gunner in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#506 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #235.
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Gunner: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 597 boys in 2025. Peak: #235 in 2014 · most boys in one year: 1,591 (2015).
In 2025, 597 US boys were named Gunner, making it the 506th most common boys’ name of the year, up 12 places from #518 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 591 boys named Gunner in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #235, reached in 2014. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,591, in 2015. For comparison, it was #239 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gunner in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 6 babies. In all, 23,508 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 12,884 babies named Gunner.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 10,094 US boys were named Gunner; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,453. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,861 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Gunner ranked highest in Arkansas in 2025, at #193 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Gunnar (18,178 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Gunther, Gunter and Gunar are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Gunther (1,098), Gunter (397), Gunar (43), Gunnarr (28), Guner (22).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Gunner in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 21 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | 19 | #193 | #100 |
| Mississippi | 15 | #205 | #194 |
| West Virginia | 9 | #211 | #77 |
| Alabama | 23 | #241 | #147 |
| Tennessee | 36 | #248 | #113 |
| Kentucky | 21 | #257 | #75 |
| Oklahoma | 16 | #301 | #86 |
| Idaho | 8 | #312 | #184 |
| Georgia | 38 | #324 | #205 |
| Kansas | 11 | #337 | #192 |
| Missouri | 18 | #355 | #137 |
| South Carolina | 13 | #392 | #331 |
| Louisiana | 12 | #409 | #192 |
| Iowa | 8 | #417 | #155 |
| Utah | 11 | #420 | #193 |
| Ohio | 24 | #445 | #190 |
| Virginia | 17 | #463 | #235 |
| Arizona | 15 | #476 | #271 |
| Texas | 67 | #503 | #230 |
| North Carolina | 19 | #521 | #184 |
| Indiana | 13 | #523 | #143 |
| Nevada | 5 | #540 | #414 |
| Florida | 30 | #577 | #277 |
| Illinois | 16 | #581 | #343 |
| Colorado | 8 | #644 | #315 |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #679 | #320 |
| California | 40 | #688 | #448 |
| Michigan | 10 | #737 | #272 |
| Maryland | 6 | #745 | #300 |
| New York | 7 | #1,474 | #489 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 597 | #506 |
| 2024 | — | — | 591 | #518 |
| 2023 | — | — | 711 | #437 |
| 2022 | — | — | 830 | #386 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,097 | 1,021 | #324 |
| 2020 | — | — | 1,071 | #308 |
| 2019 | — | — | 1,175 | #294 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,529 | 1,251 | #281 |
| 2017 | — | — | 1,394 | #262 |
| 2016 | — | — | 1,453 | #251 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,168 | 1,591 | #239 |
| 2014 | — | — | 1,578 | #235 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,500 | 1,514 | #239 |
| 2012 | — | — | 1,203 | #293 |
| 2011 | — | — | 911 | #333 |
| 2010 | — | — | 798 | #369 |
| 2009 | — | — | 745 | #398 |
| 2008 | — | — | 585 | #474 |
| 2007 | — | — | 525 | #501 |
| 2006 | — | — | 426 | #579 |
| 2005 | — | — | 358 | #620 |
| 2004 | — | — | 364 | #597 |
| 2003 | — | — | 326 | #630 |
| 2002 | — | — | 305 | #637 |
| 2001 | — | — | 272 | #669 |
| 2000 | — | — | 244 | #716 |
| 1999 | — | — | 219 | #741 |
| 1998 | — | — | 256 | #666 |
| 1997 | — | — | 210 | #732 |
| 1996 | — | — | 177 | #813 |
| 1995 | — | — | 203 | #758 |
| 1994 | — | — | 152 | #876 |
| 1993 | — | — | 88 | #1,197 |
| 1992 | — | — | 90 | #1,170 |
| 1991 | — | — | 97 | #1,113 |
| 1990 | — | — | 21 | #3,002 |
| 1989 | — | — | 15 | #3,692 |
| 1988 | — | — | 13 | #3,769 |
| 1987 | — | — | 9 | #4,704 |
| 1986 | — | — | 8 | #5,038 |
| 1985 | — | — | 9 | #4,455 |
| 1984 | — | — | 14 | #3,161 |
| 1983 | — | — | 12 | #3,483 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #6,714 |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #5,764 |
| 1980 | — | — | 6 | #5,795 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,332 |
| 1976 | — | — | 8 | #4,156 |
| 1975 | — | — | 8 | #4,082 |
| 1972 | — | — | 9 | #3,444 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,434 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).