Gunner
Last seen for girls in 2021 at #13,464 · #506 for boys in 2025, 597 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2014 · 1,578 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 23,486since 1970
Gunner over time
Rank among boys' names. Gunner has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #506 | 597 | |
| 2024 | — | #518 | 591 | |
| 2023 | — | #437 | 711 | |
| 2022 | — | #386 | 830 | |
| 2021 | #13,464 | 6 | #324 | 1,021 |
| 2020 | — | #308 | 1,071 | |
| 2019 | — | #294 | 1,175 | |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #281 | 1,251 |
| 2017 | — | #262 | 1,394 | |
| 2016 | — | #251 | 1,453 | |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #239 | 1,591 |
| 2014 | — | #235 | 1,578 | |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #239 | 1,514 |
| 2012 | — | #293 | 1,203 | |
| 2011 | — | #333 | 911 | |
| 2010 | — | #368 | 798 | |
| 2009 | — | #398 | 745 | |
| 2008 | — | #472 | 585 | |
| 2007 | — | #501 | 525 | |
| 2006 | — | #579 | 426 | |
| 2005 | — | #620 | 358 | |
| 2004 | — | #597 | 364 | |
| 2003 | — | #629 | 326 | |
| 2002 | — | #637 | 305 | |
| 2001 | — | #668 | 272 | |
| 2000 | — | #715 | 244 | |
| 1999 | — | #740 | 219 | |
| 1998 | — | #666 | 256 | |
| 1997 | — | #732 | 210 | |
| 1996 | — | #811 | 177 | |
| 1995 | — | #757 | 203 | |
| 1994 | — | #872 | 152 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,196 | 88 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,162 | 90 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,113 | 97 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,952 | 21 | |
| 1989 | — | #3,618 | 15 | |
| 1988 | — | #3,705 | 13 | |
| 1987 | — | #4,573 | 9 | |
| 1986 | — | #4,853 | 8 | |
| 1985 | — | #4,333 | 9 | |
| 1984 | — | #3,107 | 14 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,411 | 12 | |
| 1982 | — | #6,385 | 5 | |
| 1981 | — | #5,468 | 6 | |
| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
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| 1978 | — | #5,059 | 6 | |
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| 1976 | — | #4,012 | 8 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,941 | 8 | |
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| 1972 | — | #3,344 | 9 | |
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| 1970 | — | #4,230 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Gunner! It came in at #4,230, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1971, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Gunner is popular in 1996
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arkansas#208 · 1 in 1,116
- Oklahoma#337 · 1 in 2,383
- Iowa#338 · 1 in 2,767
- Missouri#489 · 1 in 4,928
- Arizona#517 · 1 in 4,789
Best ever in a state: #71 in Oklahoma, 2013.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Arkansas | #208 | 13 | 1 in 1,116 |
| Oklahoma | #337 | 8 | 1 in 2,383 |
| Iowa | #338 | 6 | 1 in 2,767 |
| Missouri | #489 | 7 | 1 in 4,928 |
| Arizona | #517 | 7 | 1 in 4,789 |
| Tennessee | #604 | 5 | 1 in 6,878 |
| Indiana | #627 | 5 | 1 in 7,522 |
| Ohio | #650 | 8 | 1 in 8,790 |
| Texas | #659 | 22 | 1 in 7,084 |
| Michigan | #696 | 7 | 1 in 8,512 |
| North Carolina | #703 | 6 | 1 in 7,647 |
| Georgia | #802 | 6 | 1 in 8,076 |
| California | #1,101 | 13 | 1 in 19,504 |
| Illinois | #1,110 | 5 | 1 in 16,187 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Gunner
- 12 spots since 2024 (#518 → #506)
- 198 spots since 2020 (#308 → #506)
- 267 spots since 2015 (#239 → #506)
- Biggest jump: 324 spots in 1994 (#1,196 → #872)
- Biggest drop: 81 spots in 2024 (#437 → #518)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2014 at #235 (1,578 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 32 yrs · run 1994–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,205 boys born in 2015 were named Gunner (0.08%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,861 boys born in 2025 (0.03%)
- Its best rank, #235 in 2014, was only 1 in 1,217 (0.08%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 54.8% of all boys named Gunner (12,868) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 37 | #3,344 (1972) | #4,117 |
| 1980s | 97 | #3,107 (1984) | #4,498 |
| 1990s | 1,513 | #666 (1998) | #1,100 |
| 2000s | 4,150 | #398 (2009) | #582 |
| 2010s | 12,868 | #235 (2014) | #280 |
| 2020s | 4,821 | #308 (2020) | #413 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Gunner in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 10,702 of them was named Gunner, which outranked 92.3% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #808Anderson178
- #808Robin178
- #808Ulysses178
- #811Gunner177
- #811Dylon177
- #811Greyson177
- #811Hernan177
- #817Dan176
- #817Dillion176
- #817Fidel176
Tied with 5 names at #811; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.