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Gunter

#10,037 in 2025Boys' name

Battle + army, through Gunther

Gunter has been given to 397 babies in the U.S. since 1929. In 2025 it ranked #10,037 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Gunter, 2025

1 in 474,000

Gunter over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gunter: meaning, origin, and history

Battle + army, through Gunther

Germanic languages and Old High German

What Gunter means

Gunter belongs to the name family reached through Gunter → Gunther. Its meaning is “battle + army”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

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

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Gunter (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Gunter is used in English and German. Its origins include Germanic languages and Old High German.

Gunter comes through German Gunther, Proto-West Germanic *Gunþihari and Proto-Germanic *Gunþiharjaz.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gunther.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 397 boys were recorded with the name Gunter between 1929 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2015; its best national rank was #3,404 in 1964.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,911 in 2020 to #10,037 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,364 in 2015 to #10,037 in 2025.

How common is Gunter?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,037
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gunter 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 2025 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gunter. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gunters were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gunter was born before 2002 — so the typical Gunter is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
24.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
53.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
391
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 24.7% of all recorded uses (98).

Is Gunter 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
+2,913
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−126
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,673
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.41×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
41.2%
Peak was 2015 (17)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,404
1964

Spellings of Gunter

Gunter is not the most common spelling — Hunter is, with 82.3% against Gunter's 0.12%.

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.

Where Gunter is used

Across 1910–2025, Gunter was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 968,148 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Gunter has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gunter around the world

Where Gunter ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1918–1991
    #3,191
    in 1991
  • South Australia
    1952–1978
    #424
    in 1978

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Gunter by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,037
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 126
Best rank ever
#3,404
1964
Peak year
2015
17 that year
First recorded
1929
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
397
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Gunter

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

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Sibling names for Gunter

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

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