As an English modern variant of Gunnar, Gunner ultimately derives from the Old Norse [Gunnarr]. It consists of the words ‘gunnr’ for ‘war’ and ‘herr’ for ‘army, warrior’ and means ‘(brave) fighter’.
Gunner is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Gunner isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Gunner ranks 269. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 7 were named Gunner. In the entire USA, approximately 20,187 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Gunner. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
As an English modern variant of Gunnar, Gunner ultimately derives from the Old Norse [Gunnarr]. It consists of the words ‘gunnr’ for ‘war’ and ‘herr’ for ‘army, warrior’ and means ‘(brave) fighter’.
In American football, ... a gunner is a player on kickoffs and punts who specializes in running down the sideline very quickly in an attempt to tackle the kick or punt returner.
Gunner is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Gunner cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #236 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2015. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Gunner, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Gunner seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Gunner was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
817 babies were named Gunner in 2022 - that's 1 in 197,584 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Gunner ranked 374 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter G is not really common as a first letter for boys' names: only 2.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with G. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With six letters, the name Gunner is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 2.8% of all boys' names beginning with a G, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with G that are quite popular, the most common at present is George.
If your name is Gunner and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Gunner, you can simply say:
Goat
Unicorn
Nut
Nut
Elephant
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Gunner
Gunner
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
G
U
N
N
E
R
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
G
U
N
N
E
R
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Gunner sounds like this:
