Meaning not yet researched.
Hunter: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,761 in 2025. Its best rank was #35 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #35 in 2000; #130 in 2025. About 90% of babies named Hunter in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#130 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #35.
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Hunter: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,761 boys in 2025. Peak: #35 in 2000 · most boys in one year: 12,538 (2000).
In 2025, 2,761 US boys were named Hunter, making it the 130th most common boys’ name of the year, down 2 places from #128 in 2024. That is 91 fewer than the 2,852 boys named Hunter in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #35, reached in 2000. That year also had the most boys given the name: 12,538. For comparison, it was #41 in 2015 and #994 in 1950.
In 2025, 323 US girls were named Hunter, making it the 842nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 39 places from #881 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 307 girls named Hunter in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #305, reached in 1998. That year also had the most girls given the name: 997. For comparison, it was #793 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Hunter in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 12 babies. In all, 276,622 US babies have been given the name, 5.2% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 98,430 babies named Hunter.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 47,297 US boys were named Hunter; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 7,681. In 2025 that was about 1 in 619 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Hunter ranked highest in Rhode Island in 2025, at #55 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 12 states (counting DC). Rarer spellings such as Hunt, Huntyr and Huntter are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Hunt (254), Huntyr (79), Huntter (53), Huntur (16).
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 Hunter 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 2 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island | 17 | #55 | #39 |
| West Virginia | 28 | #60 | #4 |
| Montana | 16 | #72 | #9 |
| Wyoming | 6 | #75 | #17 |
| Alaska | 10 | #80 | #31 |
| Kentucky | 59 | #83 | #9 |
| Alabama | 56 | #92 | #22 |
| South Carolina | 54 | #93 | #49 |
| Maine | 14 | #96 | #8 |
| Kansas | 38 | #96 | #24 |
| Mississippi | 29 | #100 | #51 |
| Missouri | 66 | #100 | #26 |
| New Hampshire | 15 | #103 | #21 |
| Tennessee | 86 | #106 | #34 |
| Delaware | 10 | #106 | #66 |
| Indiana | 73 | #107 | #19 |
| Pennsylvania | 119 | #107 | #32 |
| Nevada | 29 | #108 | #39 |
| North Carolina | 113 | #110 | #42 |
| Michigan | 88 | #110 | #26 |
| Maryland | 51 | #112 | #54 |
| New Jersey | 84 | #115 | #65 |
| Oklahoma | 41 | #115 | #24 |
| Washington | 68 | #116 | #29 |
| Virginia | 72 | #119 | #47 |
| Connecticut | 32 | #120 | #65 |
| Massachusetts | 59 | #121 | #47 |
| Georgia | 94 | #125 | #55 |
| Louisiana | 41 | #126 | #42 |
| Hawaii | 8 | #130 | #26 |
| Colorado | 54 | #132 | #33 |
| Idaho | 20 | #134 | #19 |
| Ohio | 103 | #134 | #23 |
| New Mexico | 14 | #138 | #39 |
| Arizona | 64 | #138 | #54 |
| Wisconsin | 45 | #139 | #41 |
| Florida | 152 | #143 | #48 |
| Illinois | 83 | #143 | #54 |
| New York | 126 | #151 | #43 |
| Minnesota | 43 | #153 | #39 |
| North Dakota | 8 | #161 | #45 |
| Texas | 228 | #161 | #67 |
| California | 233 | #167 | #67 |
| Oregon | 24 | #175 | #23 |
| Utah | 30 | #182 | #48 |
| Arkansas | 20 | #185 | #19 |
| Nebraska | 12 | #218 | #39 |
| South Dakota | 6 | #236 | #12 |
| Iowa | 12 | #319 | #21 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 323 | #842 | 2,761 | #130 |
| 2024 | 307 | #881 | 2,852 | #128 |
| 2023 | 347 | #806 | 3,131 | #115 |
| 2022 | 364 | #782 | 3,605 | #101 |
| 2021 | 340 | #818 | 4,206 | #86 |
| 2020 | 329 | #832 | 4,786 | #68 |
| 2019 | 311 | #862 | 5,398 | #66 |
| 2018 | 329 | #825 | 6,117 | #56 |
| 2017 | 384 | #737 | 6,760 | #53 |
| 2016 | 338 | #842 | 7,681 | #45 |
| 2015 | 356 | #793 | 8,367 | #41 |
| 2014 | 364 | #769 | 8,841 | #40 |
| 2013 | 273 | #931 | 8,988 | #36 |
| 2012 | 208 | #1,182 | 8,053 | #45 |
| 2011 | 197 | #1,219 | 7,380 | #55 |
| 2010 | 178 | #1,321 | 7,334 | #58 |
| 2009 | 186 | #1,301 | 7,751 | #56 |
| 2008 | 200 | #1,257 | 8,045 | #54 |
| 2007 | 212 | #1,195 | 8,218 | #57 |
| 2006 | 244 | #1,052 | 8,574 | #54 |
| 2005 | 236 | #1,028 | 8,512 | #53 |
| 2004 | 354 | #742 | 8,902 | #49 |
| 2003 | 324 | #767 | 9,900 | #41 |
| 2002 | 472 | #561 | 11,085 | #38 |
| 2001 | 628 | #441 | 11,335 | #36 |
| 2000 | 714 | #402 | 12,538 | #35 |
| 1999 | 844 | #355 | 11,485 | #36 |
| 1998 | 997 | #305 | 11,078 | #36 |
| 1997 | 728 | #371 | 8,405 | #44 |
| 1996 | 782 | #355 | 7,603 | #47 |
| 1995 | 774 | #342 | 6,715 | #53 |
| 1994 | 822 | #327 | 5,585 | #67 |
| 1993 | 471 | #519 | 3,792 | #97 |
| 1992 | 119 | #1,384 | 2,541 | #135 |
| 1991 | 39 | #2,949 | 1,929 | #167 |
| 1990 | 37 | #3,039 | 1,391 | #219 |
| 1989 | 29 | #3,509 | 1,206 | #226 |
| 1988 | 36 | #2,893 | 980 | #243 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,401 | 806 | #271 |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,390 | 671 | #306 |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,029 | 567 | #336 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,564 | 459 | #380 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,748 | 357 | #437 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,625 | 317 | #474 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,369 | 266 | #518 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,985 | 242 | #548 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,363 | 196 | #611 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,100 | 145 | #696 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,034 | 160 | #669 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,344 | 130 | #732 |
| 1975 | — | — | 109 | #797 |
| 1974 | — | — | 92 | #839 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,915 | 87 | #849 |
| 1972 | — | — | 84 | #880 |
| 1971 | — | — | 99 | #815 |
| 1970 | — | — | 113 | #777 |
| 1969 | — | — | 98 | #778 |
| 1968 | — | — | 94 | #766 |
| 1967 | — | — | 80 | #811 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,941 | 66 | #892 |
| 1965 | — | — | 67 | #906 |
| 1964 | — | — | 75 | #887 |
| 1963 | — | — | 68 | #909 |
| 1962 | — | — | 76 | #875 |
| 1961 | — | — | 69 | #921 |
| 1960 | — | — | 71 | #901 |
| 1959 | — | — | 66 | #946 |
| 1958 | — | — | 63 | #960 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,445 | 72 | #892 |
| 1956 | — | — | 62 | #949 |
| 1955 | — | — | 55 | #1,019 |
| 1954 | — | — | 68 | #898 |
| 1953 | — | — | 41 | #1,157 |
| 1952 | — | — | 51 | #1,006 |
| 1951 | — | — | 49 | #1,009 |
| 1950 | — | — | 49 | #994 |
| 1949 | — | — | 51 | #978 |
| 1948 | — | — | 49 | #1,011 |
| 1947 | — | — | 68 | #839 |
| 1946 | — | — | 60 | #851 |
| 1945 | — | — | 49 | #922 |
| 1944 | — | — | 41 | #1,025 |
| 1943 | — | — | 42 | #1,042 |
| 1942 | — | — | 41 | #1,068 |
| 1941 | — | — | 33 | #1,162 |
| 1940 | — | — | 36 | #1,100 |
| 1939 | — | — | 39 | #1,021 |
| 1938 | — | — | 32 | #1,156 |
| 1937 | — | — | 35 | #1,106 |
| 1936 | — | — | 22 | #1,435 |
| 1935 | — | — | 44 | #958 |
| 1934 | — | — | 45 | #947 |
| 1933 | — | — | 34 | #1,134 |
| 1932 | — | — | 52 | #898 |
| 1931 | — | — | 50 | #915 |
| 1930 | — | — | 40 | #1,099 |
| 1929 | — | — | 61 | #842 |
| 1928 | — | — | 55 | #907 |
| 1927 | — | — | 56 | #917 |
| 1926 | — | — | 60 | #864 |
| 1925 | — | — | 35 | #1,212 |
| 1924 | — | — | 67 | #828 |
| 1923 | — | — | 69 | #811 |
| 1922 | — | — | 56 | #931 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,458 | 48 | #1,015 |
| 1920 | — | — | 69 | #808 |
| 1919 | — | — | 55 | #904 |
| 1918 | — | — | 68 | #793 |
| 1917 | — | — | 60 | #826 |
| 1916 | — | — | 47 | #930 |
| 1915 | — | — | 50 | #873 |
| 1914 | — | — | 42 | #828 |
| 1913 | — | — | 36 | #793 |
| 1912 | — | — | 28 | #845 |
| 1911 | — | — | 17 | #807 |
| 1910 | — | — | 16 | #768 |
| 1909 | — | — | 13 | #818 |
| 1908 | — | — | 15 | #697 |
| 1907 | — | — | 13 | #758 |
| 1906 | — | — | 13 | #693 |
| 1905 | — | — | 14 | #650 |
| 1904 | — | — | 17 | #550 |
| 1903 | — | — | 5 | #1,206 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,688 | 15 | #568 |
| 1901 | — | — | 8 | #809 |
| 1900 | — | — | 12 | #761 |
| 1899 | — | — | 10 | #680 |
| 1898 | — | — | 10 | #719 |
| 1897 | — | — | 8 | #824 |
| 1896 | — | — | 15 | #543 |
| 1895 | — | — | 7 | #931 |
| 1894 | — | — | 9 | #761 |
| 1893 | — | — | 12 | #590 |
| 1892 | — | — | 11 | #658 |
| 1891 | — | — | 11 | #575 |
| 1890 | — | — | 8 | #782 |
| 1889 | — | — | 11 | #604 |
| 1888 | — | — | 16 | #493 |
| 1886 | — | — | 7 | #804 |
| 1885 | — | — | 10 | #621 |
| 1884 | — | — | 6 | #907 |
| 1883 | — | — | 6 | #841 |
| 1882 | — | — | 10 | #623 |
| 1881 | — | — | 6 | #826 |
| 1880 | — | — | 12 | #545 |
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).