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Gunnar

Gunnar is a boy's name meaning "battle warrior". It is currently on the rise, with its biggest decade yet in the 2010s. As things stand now, it is a distinctive, less common pick. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.

Old NorseOld Norse "gunnr" (war) + "arr" (warrior)
EtymologyMeaning "battle warrior"
Births by decade
1900s
12
1910s
159
1920s
138
1930s
109
1940s
102
1950s
183
1960s
217
1970s
236
1980s
292
1990s
2,766
2000s
4,273
2010s
5,480
Peaked in the 2010s · 13,967 total U.S. births since 1900