Gunner
Gunner was given to 597 boys in 2025, #506 among boys’ names; 23,508 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 23,300 Americans named Gunner and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gunner by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gunner mean?
Wiktionary, Danish section
Gunner is “a male given name, variant of Gunnar”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Danish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gunner?
#506 among boys’ names, 2025
Gunner fell from #239 in 2015 to #506 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.83 to 0.35 per 1,000.
1,597 babies in 2015, the peak
Gunner peaked in 2015, when 1,597 babies were given it (1,591 boys, #239 among boys’ names). The 597 births of 2025 are 37% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 597 | #506 | 0.35 |
| 2024 | 591 | #518 | 0.34 |
| 2023 | 711 | #437 | 0.42 |
| 2022 | 830 | #386 | 0.48 |
| 2021 | 1,021 | #324 | 0.58 |
| 2020 | 1,071 | #308 | 0.62 |
| 2019 | 1,175 | #294 | 0.65 |
| 2018 | 1,251 | #281 | 0.69 |
| 2017 | 1,394 | #262 | 0.75 |
| 2016 | 1,453 | #251 | 0.77 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,591 | #239 | 0.83 |
| 2014 | 1,578 | #235 | 0.82 |
| 2013 | 1,514 | #239 | 0.80 |
| 2012 | 1,203 | #293 | 0.63 |
| 2011 | 911 | #333 | 0.48 |
| 2010 | 798 | #369 | 0.42 |
| 2009 | 745 | #398 | 0.38 |
| 2008 | 585 | #474 | 0.29 |
| 2007 | 525 | #501 | 0.25 |
| 2006 | 426 | #579 | 0.21 |
| 2005 | 358 | #620 | 0.18 |
| 2004 | 364 | #597 | 0.18 |
| 2003 | 326 | #630 | 0.17 |
| 2002 | 305 | #637 | 0.16 |
| 2001 | 272 | #669 | 0.14 |
| 2000 | 244 | #715 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 219 | #739 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 256 | #666 | 0.13 |
| 1997 | 210 | #731 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 177 | #811 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 203 | #755 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 152 | #873 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 88 | #1,193 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 90 | #1,166 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 97 | #1,107 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 21 | #2,996 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 15 | #3,686 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 13 | #3,764 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,697 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,033 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,450 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 14 | #3,159 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,482 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,712 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,762 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,793 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,329 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,154 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,080 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,442 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,432 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Gunner a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gunner has been given almost only to boys: 22 girls in 51 years of records.
Girls and boys named Gunner: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gunner, and how old are they?
23,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 23,508 Americans ever recorded as Gunner. The median Gunner alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 17,163 people named Gunner (57 women and girls, 17,106 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 18,772 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 39 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 884 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,640 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 14,700 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Gunner born?
The states with the most babies named Gunner are Texas, California and Georgia, with 26% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 67 | #503 | 0.9× |
| California | 40 | #688 | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 38 | #324 | 1.1× |
| Tennessee | 36 | #248 | 1.8× |
| Florida | 30 | #577 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 24 | #445 | 1.3× |
| Alabama | 23 | #241 | 1.6× |
| Kentucky | 21 | #257 | 2.4× |
| North Carolina | 19 | #521 | 1.1× |
| Arkansas | 19 | #193 | 3.1× |
Where Gunner is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gunner is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1970 it was given 3.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Gunner with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 41,686 babies since 1880, Gunner is the most given (56% of them). In 2025 it was given to 597 of their 1,059 babies (56%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Gunner
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Gunner and names like it
- Compare Gunner and GunnarBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sGunner peaked in 2015.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gunner since 1910.
- Danish namesWiktionary’s origin for Gunner: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Gunner.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Gunner alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.