Hunter Boy Name

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The name Hunter is of English origin, and means hunter. The table below indicates the number of times the name Hunter 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 Hunter**
Use of the Name Hunter for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
123,920	122,125	119,900	98,836	53,569	18,677	8,803

The table below indicates the number of times the name Hunter has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. 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 Hunter**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	546	12
1881	826	6
1882	623	10
1883	841	6
1884	907	6
1885	621	10
1886	805	7
1887
1888	493	16
1889	604	11
1890	782	8
1891	575	11
1892	659	11
1893	590	12
1894	763	9
1895	932	7
1896	543	15
1897	826	8
1898	719	10
1899	682	10
1900	763	12
1901	811	8
1902	568	15
1903
1904	550	17
1905	650	14
1906	693	13
1907	758	13
1908	695	15
1909	817	13
1910	768	16
1911	805	17
1912	846	28
1913	792	36
1914	828	42
1915	875	50
1916	932	47
1917	840	58
1918	781	70
1919	901	55
1920	827	66
1921
1922	923	57
1923	814	68
1924	854	65
1925
1926	860	60
1927	916	56
1928	908	55
1929	841	61
1930
1931	929	49
1932	895	52
1933
1934	946	45
1935	961	44
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945	942	47
1946	847	61
1947	838	68
1948	991	50
1949	995	49
1950	983	50
1951
1952
1953
1954	900	68
1955
1956	959	61
1957	881	74
1958	967	62
1959	939	67
1960	904	70
1961	902	72
1962	880	75
1963	908	68
1964	882	75
1965	893	68
1966	895	65
1967	815	79
1968	769	93
1969	785	97
1970	785	109
1971	812	99
1972	891	81
1973	858	86
1974	846	90
1975	804	107
1976	733	130
1977	674	157
1978	695	146
1979	613	194
1980	555	238
1981	519	264
1982	476	314
1983	439	356
1984	381	456
1985	337	564
1986	306	670
1987	270	804
1988	244	976
1989	226	1,203
1990	219	1,388
1991	167	1,926
1992	135	2,538
1993	97	3,788	518	471
1994	67	5,579	327	821
1995	53	6,712	340	775
1996	47	7,600	354	782
1997	44	8,400	371	728
1998	36	11,074	304	996
1999	36	11,481	355	844
2000	35	12,520	402	714
2001	36	11,317	439	628
2002	38	11,055	560	472
2003	41	9,874	763	323
2004	49	8,803	740	351
Totals:		123,920		7,905

During the last 125 years, parents have used Hunter as a boy's name about 94% of the time and less frequently (about 5% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Hunter appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 106 times during the last 125 years.

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