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Girl's name · #842 in the US (2025) · 90s wave
9% girls · 91% boys — About 91% of babies named Hunter in recent years have been boys. Hunter →
Hunter's best rank, #305, came in 1998; it has settled back to #842 today. Roughly 14,000 girls have been named Hunter since 1902.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 33 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#1,122 in Canada (2024).
Among 323 notable people named Hunter:
Entertainers appear 1.34× more often than among typical names — e.g. Hunter Schafer, American actress, model, and LGBTQ activist (born 1998).
Similar names: Chandler · Huntley · Montana · Tyler · Winter · Skyler
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