# Gunner (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/gunner/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 23,508 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 23,486 / 22 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 47, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 5 | 17,500 |
| 2015 | 6 | 15,168 |
| 2018 | 5 | 16,529 |
| 2021 | 6 | 14,097 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 911 | 333 |
| 2012 | 1,203 | 293 |
| 2013 | 1,514 | 239 |
| 2014 | 1,578 | 235 |
| 2015 | 1,591 | 239 |
| 2016 | 1,453 | 251 |
| 2017 | 1,394 | 262 |
| 2018 | 1,251 | 281 |
| 2019 | 1,175 | 294 |
| 2020 | 1,071 | 308 |
| 2021 | 1,021 | 324 |
| 2022 | 830 | 386 |
| 2023 | 711 | 437 |
| 2024 | 591 | 518 |
| 2025 | 597 | 506 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | 3,362 |
| 2017 | 6 | 3,040 |
| 2018 | 4 | 3,959 |
| 2019 | 9 | 2,266 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,334 |
| 2021 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,001 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,107 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,270 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,137 |

## People named Gunner

- Gunner Wright, American actor
- Nettspend, American rapper (born 2007)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.