Gunner
Gunner is ranked 519th among boys in 2024 (587 births). Its best rank was 235th, in 2014.
- Rank in 2024
- #519down 79 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 5870.03% of boys
- Peak year
- 20151,589 births
- Best rank
- #235in 2014
- Since 1970
- 22,874people given the name
The story in the numbers
22,874 boys have been named Gunner in the United States since 1970, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2015, with 1,589 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 235 → 519).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2014, and the 2010s alone account for 56%. It has spent 31 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2015, its biggest year
Gunner was the 239th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2015 were Noah, Liam, Mason, Jacob and William. See all of 2015.
Names that rose and fell with Gunner
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jacepeak 2013
- Maisonpeak 2016
- Brysenpeak 2017
- Braysonpeak 2017
- Yousifpeak 2015
- Maxsonpeak 2016
- Kamdenpeak 2013
- Maxtonpeak 2017
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.