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Gunther

#5,464 in 2025Boys' name

Battle + army, through Gunther

Gunther has been given to 1,098 babies in the U.S. since 1924. In 2025 it ranked #5,464 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1995, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Gunther, 2025

1 in 195,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gunther: meaning, origin, and history

Battle + army, through Gunther

German and Old High German

What Gunther means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Gunther is used in English and German. Its origins include German and Old High German.

Gunther comes through German Gunther.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gunther.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Gunther is pronounced /ˈɡʌnθɚ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,098 boys were recorded with the name Gunther between 1924 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 32 in 1995; its best national rank was #1,882 in 1931.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,316 in 2020 to #5,464 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,015 in 2015 to #5,464 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Gunther?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,464
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gunther 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gunther. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gunthers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gunther was born before 1996 — so the typical Gunther is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
21.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
948
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Choose a decade

1990s — 21.7% of all recorded uses (238).

Is Gunther 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
−989
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,148
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,449
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.65×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
53.1%
Peak was 1995 (32)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,882
1931

Spellings of Gunther

Gunther is not the most common spelling — Hunter is, with 73.5% against Gunther's 0.31%.

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 Gunther is used

Across 1910–2025, Gunther was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 345,579 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 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. Gunther has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gunther around the world

Where Gunther 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
    1902–2002
    #4,089
    in 2002
  • Canada
    2022–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1952–1996
    #540
    in 1996

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

Gunther by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,464
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,148
Best rank ever
#1,882
1931
Peak year
1995
32 that year
First recorded
1924
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,098
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Gunther

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

GunterHatcherFischerBeecherAscherHeatherMaherUsherGaitherGunnisonEscherEstherThatcherArtherJasherGunnarLetcherWaltherLestherCypherChistopherFisherGunnerAurther

Sibling names for Gunther

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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