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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2015
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Kentucky#74 · 1 in 279
- West Virginia#75 · 1 in 248
- Oklahoma#84 · 1 in 340
- Arkansas#100 · 1 in 357
- Tennessee#112 · 1 in 440
Best ever in a state: #71 in Oklahoma, 2013.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | #74 | 79 | 1 in 279 |
| West Virginia | #75 | 33 | 1 in 248 |
| Oklahoma | #84 | 61 | 1 in 340 |
| Arkansas | #100 | 41 | 1 in 357 |
| Tennessee | #112 | 83 | 1 in 440 |
| Missouri | #137 | 60 | 1 in 527 |
| Montana | #139 | 9 | 1 in 447 |
| Indiana | #143 | 63 | 1 in 574 |
| Alabama | #145 | 39 | 1 in 594 |
| Iowa | #154 | 28 | 1 in 563 |
| Idaho | #180 | 14 | 1 in 568 |
| Maine | #180 | 8 | 1 in 580 |
| North Carolina | #182 | 69 | 1 in 754 |
| South Dakota | #182 | 8 | 1 in 524 |
| Ohio | #188 | 76 | 1 in 793 |
| Louisiana | #190 | 35 | 1 in 728 |
| Utah | #190 | 29 | 1 in 733 |
| Kansas | #191 | 23 | 1 in 688 |
| Mississippi | #192 | 18 | 1 in 771 |
| Alaska | #197 | 6 | 1 in 569 |
| Georgia | #204 | 63 | 1 in 872 |
| Nebraska | #217 | 13 | 1 in 777 |
| New Mexico | #218 | 11 | 1 in 805 |
| North Dakota | #221 | 6 | 1 in 710 |
| Washington | #225 | 41 | 1 in 897 |
| Texas | #230 | 187 | 1 in 1,006 |
| Virginia | #234 | 40 | 1 in 1,060 |
| Arizona | #269 | 32 | 1 in 1,155 |
| Michigan | #271 | 36 | 1 in 1,327 |
| Florida | #276 | 70 | 1 in 1,405 |
| Maryland | #298 | 19 | 1 in 1,464 |
| Colorado | #312 | 21 | 1 in 1,318 |
| Pennsylvania | #315 | 35 | 1 in 1,709 |
| South Carolina | #325 | 13 | 1 in 1,655 |
| Illinois | #338 | 37 | 1 in 1,794 |
| Oregon | #339 | 13 | 1 in 1,395 |
| Minnesota | #371 | 15 | 1 in 1,892 |
| Nevada | #391 | 7 | 1 in 1,941 |
| California | #447 | 76 | 1 in 2,978 |
| Wisconsin | #482 | 10 | 1 in 2,721 |
| New York | #485 | 33 | 1 in 3,116 |
| Massachusetts | #714 | 5 | 1 in 5,912 |
| New Jersey | #777 | 7 | 1 in 5,941 |
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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 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
girls
1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 297,516 of them was named Gunner, which outranked 24.3% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #13,006Zyliah7
- #13,006Zymira7
- #13,006Zyniyah7
- #14,482Gunner6
- #14,482Aafia6
- #14,482Aailyah6
- #14,482Aala6
- #16,419Aabriella5
- #16,419Aada5
- #16,419Aailiyah5
Tied with 1,936 names at #14,482; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 1,205 of them was named Gunner, which outranked 98.3% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.