girls:
22 births since 2004
#5694 (0th percentile)
boys:
17.2k births since 1893
#876 (81st percentile)
overall:
17.2k births since 1893
#1967 (75th percentile)
The name Gunnar is the #1,967 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 17,233 recorded births since 1893. This represents the 74.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 74.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #876 (80.9% percentile) for all time with 17,211 births since 1893. For girls, it ranks #5,694 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 22 births since 2004.
Gunnar first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1893 (1893 for boys and 2004 for girls). Birth data for Gunnar is available in 116 out of the 131 years between 1893 and 2023 (116 years for boys and 4 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Gunnar has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Gunnar reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 59.8% percentile (ranked #364) with 404 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 404 births per million (ranked 59.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Gunnar ranks #508 for boys (44.3% percentile) with 259 births per million, which is 64.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Gunnar reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #936) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gunnar".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Gunnar. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 82.1% confident that Gunnar is pronounced as GUH-ner, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is GUH-nuhr, at 10.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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