Hunter Name Meaning, Origin, Popularity, Boy Names Like Hunter

Hunter Name Origin: English
Pronunciation: hunn-terr
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Hunter Name Meaning

A strong name with rugged appeal, Hunter has been hanging out in the Top 100 since the 1990s. He’s the ultimate outdoor name, conjuring up images of forests, grit, and exploration.

Hunter is unafraid of adventure, embracing the journey and wilds along the way. He’s a free spirit that hates being tied down, someone who is a bit restless if forced to color between the lines too long. He loves learning new things about himself and others. This makes him a natural born leader.

While his meaning isn’t the most peaceful, the name doesn’t come off as aggressive. He’s much more approachable than when he first popped on the scene, quickly finding his place as a classroom regular alongside Landon and Dylan. He fits in well with the occupation name trend that has also ushered in Cooper, Carter, and Mason.

A youthful name, Hunter is the perfect pick for a gung-ho toddler or a little boy with endless energy and enthusiasm. He also ages with ease, fitting an active adult as well. He has a serious side that adapts well to professional life.

Parents who hate nicknames are in luck, as Hunter isn’t often shortened. Hunt can be used, but it isn’t that common.

Hunter Name Popularity

How popular is the name Hunter? Here’s everything we know.

Year	Rank	# Births	% Births
1910	—	0	0%
1911	—	0	0%
1912	679	13	0.0026%
1913	675	17	0.003%
1914	702	24	0.0034%
1915	759	28	0.0031%
1916	940	16	0.0017%
1917	756	32	0.0032%
1918	766	36	0.0034%
1919	853	27	0.0026%
1920	860	29	0.0026%
1921	894	26	0.0023%
1922	964	21	0.0019%
1923	868	29	0.0026%
1924	854	30	0.0026%
1925	1,026	17	0.0015%
1926	789	34	0.0031%
1927	993	19	0.0017%
1928	858	27	0.0025%
1929	771	33	0.0032%
1930	1,426	5	0.0005%
1931	838	26	0.0026%
1932	777	32	0.0032%
1933	984	14	0.0015%
1934	1,066	12	0.0012%
1935	976	15	0.0015%
1936	1,396	5	0.0005%
1937	1,123	9	0.0009%
1938	1,130	9	0.0009%
1939	1,090	9	0.0009%
1940	1,014	13	0.0012%
1941	—	0	0%
1942	1,044	13	0.001%
1943	1,089	11	0.0008%
1944	988	14	0.0011%
1945	1,070	10	0.0008%
1946	891	23	0.0016%
1947	881	29	0.0017%
1948	1,049	15	0.0009%
1949	1,049	15	0.0009%
1950	1,074	14	0.0009%
1951	1,121	12	0.0007%
1952	963	22	0.0013%
1953	1,254	10	0.0006%
1954	937	26	0.0014%
1955	1,080	17	0.0009%
1956	1,039	19	0.001%
1957	918	31	0.0016%
1958	1,314	9	0.0005%
1959	946	29	0.0015%
1960	864	38	0.002%
1961	895	36	0.0019%
1962	837	41	0.0022%
1963	884	34	0.0019%
1964	908	33	0.0019%
1965	853	36	0.0022%
1966	1,305	7	0.0004%
1967	854	35	0.0023%
1968	798	44	0.0029%
1969	807	50	0.0032%
1970	810	57	0.0036%
1971	796	59	0.0039%
1972	816	53	0.0039%
1973	826	52	0.004%
1974	817	54	0.0042%
1975	845	53	0.0041%
1976	713	87	0.0068%
1977	706	96	0.0071%
1978	725	89	0.0066%
1979	633	133	0.0094%
1980	551	200	0.0137%
1981	515	224	0.0152%
1982	473	275	0.0184%
1983	443	309	0.0209%
1984	382	409	0.0275%
1985	340	515	0.0339%
1986	308	628	0.0416%
1987	268	783	0.0513%
1988	243	936	0.0601%
1989	224	1,184	0.0734%
1990	219	1,377	0.0831%
1991	167	1,904	0.1168%
1992	133	2,538	0.159%
1993	97	3,788	0.243%
1994	67	5,580	0.3636%
1995	53	6,713	0.4454%
1996	47	7,602	0.5077%
1997	44	8,405	0.5683%
1998	36	11,078	0.7402%
1999	36	11,481	0.7667%
2000	35	12,535	0.8206%
2001	36	11,334	0.7522%
2002	38	11,079	0.7393%
2003	41	9,900	0.6507%
2004	49	8,899	0.5839%
2005	53	8,506	0.5563%
2006	54	8,567	0.5471%
2007	57	8,203	0.5199%
2008	54	8,032	0.5197%
2009	56	7,736	0.5176%
2010	59	7,317	0.5077%
2011	55	7,365	0.5169%
2012	45	8,030	0.5635%
2013	36	8,954	0.6289%
2014	40	8,808	0.6045%
2015	41	8,325	0.5722%
2016	45	7,645	0.5302%
2017	53	6,701	0.4801%
2018	57	6,050	0.4404%
2019	66	5,353	0.3954%
2020	69	4,640	0.3645%
2021	86	4,171	0.3412%
2022	100	3,551	0.2692%

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Names Like Hunter

If you like Hunter, you’ll love these other names like Hunter.

What names are diminutives of Hunter?

A diminutive is a name that’s like Hunter sounds, you might also like these names that sound like Hunter, but shorter.

Name	Meaning	Origin	Popularity	Other Gender
Hunt	Hunt	English

What names sound like Hunter?

If you like how Hunter sounds, you might also like these names that sound like Hunter.

Name	Meaning	Origin
Henderson	Son of Henry	English
Hendrie	Son of Henry	English
Hendries	Son of Henry	English
Hendrik	Home ruler	German
Hendron	Son of Henry	English
Huntington	Hunter's settlement	English
Huntlea	Meadow of the hunter	English
Huntlee	Meadow of the hunter	English
Huntleigh	Meadow of the hunter	English
Huntley	Meadow of the hunter	English
Huntly	Meadow of the hunter	English

What names are similar to Hunter?

Find a name that’s like Hunter, but just a little bit different.

Name	Meaning	Origin	Popularity	Other Gender
Archer	Bowman	English
Axel	My father is peace	Scandinavian

Carter	Cart user	English
Colton	Charcoal settlement	English
Gunner	Warrior	Scandinavian
Mason	Stoneworker	English
Miles	Soldier	Latin
Ryder	Mounted warrior	English
Waylon	Land by the road	English
Weston	West town	English

Lists With Hunter

Find inspiration in these baby boy name lists featuring the name Hunter.

Siblings of Hunter

Mamas with kids named Hunter also have kids with these names.

Name	Meaning	Origin
Ariana	Most holy	Latin
Maddison	Son of Maud	English
Aiden	Little fire	Irish
Ricky	Powerful leader; peaceful ruler	German
Noah	To rest	Hebrew
Forrest	Woodsman; woods	French

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23 Comments

Jo Aug 7 at 1:58 pm

We just liked the name.

That I can be a boy or girl name

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Jillian Apr 6 at 7:09 am

My husband is a big outdoorsman and he chose the name. We live in a very rural area, so it is a very common activity here. There is nothing we don’t like about this name, we love the fact he won’t have a million different nicknames.

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Keleigh Nov 6 at 9:00 am

I 100% thought he was going to be a girl. I had a full girl name picked out and everything! When I found out I was having a boy it took me about 3-4 days to get use to the idea and come up with a list of boy names. Hunter is the only one that stuck out and stuck ?. And considering I love the outdoors and my family is big into hunting and fishing it made sense. His middle name, Thomas, is after me dad!

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Kellie Nov 1 at 9:10 am

I let his father name him

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Kimberly Mar 4 at 8:45 am

My husband chose the name 🙂

He just always liked the name Hunter!

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Marci Jun 6 at 11:40 am

I always knew growing up if I had a son I would name him Hunter Daniel (then what ever the last name of his daddy was)! My grandma and my mom have always been my rocks and I love them both so very much. I wanted to honor each one of them in my children’s names. My g-ma’s maiden name was Hunter and my moms maiden name was Daniel. My son was born in 1993 and I did in fact name him Hunter Daniel! It is the absolute most perfect name for him. When I got pregnant with my daughter in 1997 I wanted to name her after my mom and dad. My moms name was Kathryn Lynn and my dads name was Tony Joe. When my daughter was born I named her Kamryn Jo and gave her my
maiden last name and hyphenated it with my kids dads last name. I should also point out that my middle name is Jo and their other grandfathers middle name is Joe!
My daughter just had a baby girl almost 7 weeks ago. It was important to her to keep the trend going with family names. She named her baby girl Karsyn Jo Lynn! I have always believed that names are so very important and there should be some meaning when naming a baby – it sticks with them their entire life.

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Jessica Apr 8 at 7:13 am

Both my partner and myself love the outdoors and hunting. We both feel in love with the name. I’ve also only met one other Hunter so I felt like it wasn’t a really popular name.

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Jessica Jan 19 at 11:24 am

It’s a perfect name for us we are both hunters and love spending time outside.

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Stacey Jan 2 at 7:58 pm

I love the name and also his full name is Hunter Zachary Gene Stude. The reason I chose Hunter is because it was a great name. Zackary because of one of my friends. Gene because of my best friend that passed away and I wanted part of him in my child’s name and Stude is because of his daddy’s last name

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Mary Dec 9 at 2:05 pm

Hunter was the only name my husband and I both liked. We felt that it’s a more outdoorsy name and that fits our lifestyle. We prayed long and hard about a name and Hunter was the only one that stuck!

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Katie Jun 14 at 5:27 pm

I love my sons name nothing bad about it actually. We chose it to fit the nature theme we have going his older sisters name is river so it just fit really well

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tilly May 18 at 9:15 am

maverick? glad you went with hunter my brother is called hunter

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Nicky Mar 16 at 12:41 pm

Hunting is one of his fathers favorite hobbies.

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Kelly Feb 8 at 4:21 pm

I always loved the name and I said if I ever had another boy I would name him Hunter and yse my dad’s and brothers middle name to go with it

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Jessica Dec 13 at 9:10 am

My daughter picked out the name hunter

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Beth Gibson Nov 2 at 7:31 am

I heard the name Hunter in a movie once and I really liked it.

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Chasity Oct 29 at 6:34 pm

My husbands moms maiden name was hunt

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Lindsey Oct 4 at 5:20 am

We wanted to honor my husband’s father who passed away 12 years ago. His dad was named after his father, so we named our son after my husband.

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Melissa Jul 22 at 1:48 pm

I wanted the name maverick ,but Shawn didn’t like it so my aunt and uncle started coming up with names and that’s how we came
Up with hunter. His middle
Name is Allen after my
Dad who passed away in my 20’s. I’m turning 36 in August

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Candy Jun 8 at 7:16 pm

Dad chose the name hunter our other kids are fisher and River and hunter went right along with Them I wanted you to have a unique name but dads heart has been set in Hunter you hear if everywhere I wanted to name you Ruger or even arrow but

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Ariel Jun 8 at 11:51 am

We choose Hunter because we wanted our son to pursue life like a hunter does. Ever honing skills, perseverance, and knowledge. It is about the persuit of life not trophies.

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Kim Jun 7 at 12:21 pm

Our son was born on the full moon in October which we learned is called the Hunter’s Moon.

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Catherine Apr 12 at 1:26 pm

My husband has loved the name as long as he can remember. Being outdoorsy folks, it fits right in with our lifestyle, too. At first I wasn’t sure if I liked the name; I’m not typically a big fan of occupation names. Knowing how much my husband loved the name, I decided to give it serious consideration and eventually I agreed to name our son Hunter. Now that he’s here, the name completely fits him and I am totally in love with him and his name 🙂

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