How popular is the name Gunner?

Gunner ranks 537th among boys' names in US records, with 40,589 births since 1893. Over the past decade it accounts for 17,126.

Is Gunner a unisex name?

No. Gunner is recorded almost entirely as a boys' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

2015, when 2,414 children were given the name. It has been in use for 132 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Gunnar, Guner. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Boy name#537 of boy names

Pronounced G AH1 N ER0 (ARPABET)

Gunner is a boys' name, and first appears in 1893. It has been given to 40,589 children — the 537th most common boys' name on record.

Its use has been broadly flat across the past two decades. Its best single year was 2015, when 2,414 children were given it.

Two other spellings are counted in that total — Gunnar and Guner — because they are pronounced identically.

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These spellings sound identical to Gunner and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Gunner?: Gunner ranks 537th among boys' names in US records, with 40,589 births since 1893. Over the past decade it accounts for 17,126.
Is Gunner a unisex name?: No. Gunner is recorded almost entirely as a boys' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Gunner most popular?: 2015, when 2,414 children were given the name. It has been in use for 132 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Gunner spelled?: Gunnar, Guner. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.