Gunnar
Last seen for girls in 2019 at #15,539 · #612 for boys in 2025, 462 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2014 · 816 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 18,156since 1893
Gunnar over time
Rank among boys' names. Gunnar has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #612 | 462 | |
| 2024 | — | #598 | 476 | |
| 2023 | — | #593 | 478 | |
| 2022 | — | #589 | 486 | |
| 2021 | — | #541 | 545 | |
| 2020 | — | #526 | 542 | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #497 | 576 |
| 2018 | — | #468 | 621 | |
| 2017 | — | #439 | 707 | |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #400 | 798 |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #388 | 825 |
| 2014 | — | #382 | 816 | |
| 2013 | — | #396 | 758 | |
| 2012 | — | #450 | 603 | |
| 2011 | — | #499 | 520 | |
| 2010 | — | #553 | 457 | |
| 2009 | — | #550 | 480 | |
| 2008 | — | #540 | 488 | |
| 2007 | — | #553 | 464 | |
| 2006 | — | #507 | 512 | |
| 2005 | — | #539 | 450 | |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | #574 | 394 |
| 2003 | — | #586 | 373 | |
| 2002 | — | #558 | 398 | |
| 2001 | — | #576 | 357 | |
| 2000 | — | #574 | 352 | |
| 1999 | — | #547 | 370 | |
| 1998 | — | #511 | 412 | |
| 1997 | — | #555 | 347 | |
| 1996 | — | #553 | 337 | |
| 1995 | — | #574 | 317 | |
| 1994 | — | #555 | 342 | |
| 1993 | — | #763 | 188 | |
| 1992 | — | #746 | 191 | |
| 1991 | — | #705 | 206 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,516 | 56 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,476 | 56 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,909 | 34 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,655 | 41 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,662 | 38 | |
| 1985 | — | #2,293 | 23 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,979 | 27 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,676 | 17 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,518 | 19 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,496 | 19 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,444 | 20 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,236 | 22 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,205 | 21 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,037 | 13 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,709 | 15 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,787 | 27 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,692 | 28 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,782 | 25 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,323 | 16 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,352 | 39 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,615 | 28 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,728 | 23 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,506 | 27 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,906 | 17 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,757 | 19 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,856 | 18 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,729 | 21 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,744 | 21 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,713 | 22 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,521 | 28 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,772 | 21 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,111 | 15 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,370 | 32 | |
| 1957 | — | #2,093 | 15 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,676 | 22 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,902 | 17 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,316 | 12 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,455 | 27 | |
| 1952 | — | #2,875 | 8 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,774 | 18 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,879 | 16 | |
| 1949 | — | #2,337 | 11 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,115 | 13 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,356 | 11 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,030 | 13 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,393 | 9 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,309 | 10 | |
| 1943 | — | #2,405 | 10 | |
| 1942 | — | #2,940 | 7 | |
| 1941 | — | #2,333 | 10 | |
| 1940 | — | #2,671 | 8 | |
| 1939 | — | #2,609 | 8 | |
| 1938 | — | #2,185 | 11 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,680 | 8 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,854 | 7 | |
| 1935 | — | #2,529 | 9 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,742 | 8 | |
| 1933 | — | #2,542 | 9 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,387 | 25 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,328 | 11 | |
| 1930 | — | #2,178 | 13 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,317 | 12 | |
| 1928 | — | #2,048 | 15 | |
| 1927 | — | #2,193 | 14 | |
| 1926 | — | #1,846 | 18 | |
| 1925 | — | #1,583 | 23 | |
| 1924 | — | #2,473 | 12 | |
| 1923 | — | #3,822 | 6 | |
| 1922 | — | #2,143 | 15 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,502 | 12 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,602 | 11 | |
| 1919 | — | #2,063 | 15 | |
| 1918 | — | #1,373 | 27 | |
| 1917 | — | #1,528 | 22 | |
| 1916 | — | #1,594 | 20 | |
| 1915 | — | #1,410 | 23 | |
| 1914 | — | #1,772 | 13 | |
| 1913 | — | #1,112 | 21 | |
| 1912 | — | #1,353 | 13 | |
| 1911 | — | — | ||
| 1910 | — | #1,589 | 5 | |
| 1909 | — | #1,155 | 7 | |
| 1908 | — | #1,373 | 5 | |
| 1907 | — | — | ||
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| 1894 | — | — | ||
| 1893 | — | #1,035 | 5 | |
| 1892 | — | — | ||
| 1891 | — | — | ||
| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | — | ||
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| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Gunnar! It came in at #1,035, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1893–1908, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Gunnar
- 14 spots since 2024 (#598 → #612)
- 86 spots since 2020 (#526 → #612)
- 224 spots since 2015 (#388 → #612)
- Biggest jump: 811 spots in 1991 (#1,516 → #705)
- Biggest drop: 48 spots in 2022 (#541 → #589)
- Debuted 1893
- Peaked 2014 at #382 (816 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 35 yrs · run 1991–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,323 boys born in 2015 were named Gunnar (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,697 boys born in 2025 (0.03%)
- Its best rank, #382 in 2014, was only 1 in 2,354 (0.04%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 36.8% of all boys named Gunnar (6,681) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | #1,035 (1893) | #1,035 |
| 1900s | 12 | #1,155 (1909) | #1,264 |
| 1910s | 159 | #1,112 (1913) | #1,533 |
| 1920s | 138 | #1,583 (1925) | #2,353 |
| 1930s | 109 | #1,387 (1932) | #2,403 |
| 1940s | 102 | #2,030 (1946) | #2,389 |
| 1950s | 182 | #1,370 (1958) | #1,945 |
| 1960s | 217 | #1,506 (1968) | #1,723 |
| 1970s | 234 | #1,352 (1971) | #2,074 |
| 1980s | 294 | #1,476 (1989) | #2,111 |
| 1990s | 2,766 | #511 (1998) | #703 |
| 2000s | 4,268 | #507 (2006) | #556 |
| 2010s | 6,681 | #382 (2014) | #447 |
| 2020s | 2,989 | #526 (2020) | #577 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Gunnar in 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 335,673 of them was named Gunnar, which outranked 13.8% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,485 names at #15,539; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 3,115 of them was named Gunnar, which outranked 96.5% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).