Gunnar Boy Name

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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 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
4,572	4,572	4,572	3,646	1,864	759	386

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 Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1991	706	206
1992	746	191
1993	762	188
1994	555	341
1995	575	318
1996	553	336
1997	556	347
1998	511	411
1999	546	370
2000	573	352
2001	574	357
2002	558	396
2003	587	373
2004	575	386
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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Gunnar Boy Name

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Boy Name Gunnar