boy name Gunnar
 

Gunnar Boy Name


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Gunnar name image The name Gunnar is of Scandinavian origin, and means battle.  The table below indicates the number of times the name Gunnar has been given to baby boys in recent years.  The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004.  The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years. 

Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Gunnar
Use of the Name Gunnar for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years50 Years25 Years10 Years5 Years2 Years1 Year
4,5724,5724,5723,6461,864759386
The table below indicates the number of times the name Gunnar has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004.  Gunnar first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1991, which is the first year shown on the table.  A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Gunnar
 Used as a Boy NameUsed as a Girl Name
YearRankCountRankCount
1991706206  
1992746191  
1993762188  
1994555341  
1995575318  
1996553336  
1997556347  
1998511411  
1999546370  
2000573352  
2001574357  
2002558396  
2003587373  
2004575386  
Totals:  4,572 0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Gunnar as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and almost never as a girl's name.  Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are significantly lower than actual counts because the name Gunnar appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 14 times during the last 125 years.


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Boy Name Gunnar