Hunter — #128 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Hunter

The Social Security Administration has registered 259,395 babies named Hunter between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Hunter currently holds the #128 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 12,538 babies received it in a single year. Hunter is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 14,056 additional births since 1902.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Hunter performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 94,858 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Hunter shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 19,390 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Hunter in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Hunter 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 259,395 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.