Gunnar

What Gunnar means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Gunnar yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #612 vs #3,256 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Gunnar?

US: Falling: down from #388 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #3373 in 2015, #3256 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2015, when 825 boys got the name (#388 that year). First in the US records in 1893.

How common

• About 1 in 3,697 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 45,323 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in WV (1.3 per 1,000 boys), NH (1.11 per 1,000 boys), MD (0.7 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Gunnar is #612 in the US and #3256 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Gunnar were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Gunner597 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Gunnar

Boys

• Jaxson#156Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1991, with 13 babies
• Avery#291Editor’s note Down from #188 in 2015 to #291 in 2025 in the US
• Braxton#172Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #172 vs #2,014 in 2025
• Wyatt#38“war + hard, brave”^*
• Parker#102From a surname for “a gamekeeper”^*
• Tucker#181Editor’s note Steady in the US: #186 in 2015 and #181 in 2025

For a sister

• Rowan#249“little red one”^*
• Zoey#69Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1967, with 6 babies
• Lydia#92“the region of Lydia”^*
• Genesis#66“creation, beginning, origin”^*
• Adalyn#260Form of Adela, meaning “noble”^*
• Reagan#248“descendant of Riagán”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Gunnar’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.