Gunnar — #600 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Gunnar

The Social Security Administration has registered 17,693 babies named Gunnar between 1893 and 2024, spanning 132 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Gunnar currently holds the #600 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 825 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Gunnar performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 6,681 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Gunnar shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,341 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Washington. In total, SSA state-level files list Gunnar in 49 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Gunnar in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 17,693 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.