Name meaning & stats
Hunter
Hunter means “hunter”. 274,913 US babies since 1940, peak 2000.
What it means
“hunter”
Well documented
Originally a surname.
In US birth records
Peak year: 2000
274,913 US babies were named Hunter between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Hunter (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Name twins (peaked around 2000)