# Gunter (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/gunter/  
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 | 397 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 397 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

From German Gunther, from Proto-West Germanic *Gunþihari, from Proto-Germanic *Gunþiharjaz.

## 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, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | 11,327 |
| 2012 | 12 | 6,760 |
| 2013 | 7 | 10,029 |
| 2014 | 11 | 7,216 |
| 2015 | 17 | 5,368 |
| 2016 | 11 | 7,311 |
| 2017 | 10 | 7,780 |
| 2018 | 6 | 11,263 |
| 2019 | 12 | 6,922 |
| 2020 | 7 | 9,917 |
| 2021 | 7 | 10,096 |
| 2022 | 6 | 11,353 |
| 2023 | 7 | 10,097 |
| 2024 | 5 | 12,955 |
| 2025 | 7 | 10,041 |

## In other languages

- Danish: Gunnar
- Esperanto: Guntero
- German: Günter, Günther
- Icelandic: Gunnar
- Latvian: Guntars
- Norwegian: Gunnar
- Swedish: Gunnar

## People named Gunter

- Günter Grass, German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, and sculptor (1927–2015)
- Günter Blobel, German American biologist (1999 Nobel Prize)
- Günter Netzer, German association football player (born 1944)
- Günter Behnisch, German architect, submarine commander in World War II (1922–2010)
- Gunter Demnig, German artist (born 1947)
- Günter Guillaume, German intelligence  officer (1927–1995)
- Günter Bernard, German footballer
- Günter Hermann, German footballer
- Günter Sawitzki, German footballer (1932-2020)
- Günter Haritz, German cyclist (1948–2025)
- Günter Wand, German orchestra conductor (1912-2002)
- Gunter Pauli, businessman, pedagogue, pioneer

## 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.