Hunt
Hunt was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,066 among boys’ names; 254 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hunt by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hunt mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Hunt is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
/hʌnt/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hunt?
#10,066 among boys’ names, 2025
Hunt fell from #9,047 in 2015 to #10,066 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 4.2 to 4.1 per million.
11 babies in 2011, the peak
Hunt peaked in 2011, when 11 boys were given it, #7,167 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 64% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,066 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,580 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,125 | 4.1 |
| 2021 | 10 | #7,798 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,194 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,196 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,058 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,398 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,053 | 3.7 |
| 2015 | 8 | #9,047 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 10 | #7,764 | 5.2 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,099 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 7 | #10,102 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,167 | 5.8 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,505 | 2.9 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,730 | 3.1 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,756 | 3.3 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,809 | 3.2 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,224 | 2.8 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,692 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,420 | 3.5 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,154 | 3.9 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,809 | 2.8 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,191 | 3.8 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,250 | 2.3 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,180 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 8 | #3,073 | 3.9 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,836 | 4.4 |
| 1953 | 5 | #4,047 | 2.5 |
| 1952 | 5 | #3,970 | 2.6 |
| 1950 | 9 | #2,664 | 5.0 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,886 | 4.5 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,144 | 4.0 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,012 | 5.5 |
| 1880 | 5 | #983 | 45.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hunt a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hunt has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hunt: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hunt, and how old are they?
An estimated 209 Americans named Hunt and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 64. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 450 people named Hunt (47 women and girls, 403 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 177 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Hunt rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
More about Hunt and names like it
- The most given names of the 2010sHunt peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hunt since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Hunt: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Hunt.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Hunt alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.