Boy · Old English
Hunter
Say it: HUN-ter
Meaning
From an English and Scottish occupational surname for a huntsman, Old English hunta.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A surname used as a first name in the US South, popular nationwide from the 1990s.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 2000s
In the United States
- 258,121 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 2000, about 1 in 157 boys
- 5,068 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Famous bearers
- Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist
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Where this comes from
- English poll taxes and lay subsidy rolls (13th and 14th centuries)
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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