Hunter
For 2025 the count puts Hunter at #130 nationwide, drifting down from its high. First recorded 1880, best year 2000, 262,238 bearers across the whole run.
Hunter’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Hunter, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Hunter since 1880
Hunter peaked in 2000 at #35; #130 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Hunter is most common
By share of a state's recorded boys' names, Hunter runs strongest in Wyoming at 0.55% in 2025, then Rhode Island and West Virginia.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Hunter
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Hadley
#121 in 2025
Hayden
#161 in 2025
Hailey
#104 in 2025
Hannah
#56 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jordan
#131 in 2025 · Hebrew
Julia
#131 in 2025 · Latin
Jonah
#128 in 2025 · Hebrew
Ryder
#133 in 2025
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About Hunter
How popular is the name Hunter?
For 2025 the count puts Hunter at #130 nationwide, drifting down from its high. The full curve since 1880 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What is the recorded meaning of Hunter?
Honestly: our cited sources are silent on Hunter, and we would rather show you nothing than something made up.
What names go with Hunter?
The recipe puts Hadley first, then Hailey, on shared origin, a peak within fifteen years, matching syllables and a shared first letter. Run the sibling matcher with your own names for a list scored against them.
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