Gunnarr

Boys' name

Fight

Gunnarr has been given to 28 babies in the U.S. since 2011. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2016, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Gunnarr, 2017

1 in 511,000

Gunnarr over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gunnarr: meaning, origin, and history

Fight

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gunnarr means

Gunnarr means “fight”, associated with gunnr.

Origin, language, and formation

Gunnarr is used in Old Norse.

Gunnarr comes through Old Norse gunnr, Proto-Germanic *Gunþiharjaz and Proto-Germanic *harjaz.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Günther.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 28 boys were recorded with the name Gunnarr between 2011 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2016; its best national rank was #9,136 in 2016.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Gunnarr?

Gunnarr had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017: 1 in 511,000; 7 of 3,577,106 births
Among boys only: 1 in 264,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2017: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 354,210 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Gunnarr sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 354,210 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gunnarr. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gunnarrs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gunnarr was born before 2016 — so the typical Gunnarr is around 9 today.

Median birth year: 2016; About 9 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 28; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (28).

Is Gunnarr rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2016 (8)
Years since peak: 9; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 12.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #9,136; 2016

Spellings of Gunnarr

Gunnarr is not the most common spelling — Gunner is, with 53.1% against Gunnarr's 0.06%.

Gunner53.1%23,486
Gunnar41.1%18,156
Gennaro5.7%2,542
Gunnarr0.06%28

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Gunnarr by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #9,136; 2016
Peak year: 2016; 8 that year
First recorded: 2011
Last recorded: 2017
All-time count: 28
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Gunnarr

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Finbarr Gunnison Gunnard Gunder Gunars Guner Gunar Lemarr Gunter Shemarr Bernarr Gunther Amarr Damarr Kamarr Lavarr Levarr Tamarr Abubacarr Jabarr Dermarr Baboucarr Abubakarr Demarr

Sibling names for Gunnarr

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Karleigh Hadlee Heavenly Scarlette Ayesha Henley Annalee Raylee

For a brother

Smith Damari Kye Canaan Vladimir Cayson Hamilton Kingsley

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