as a First Name
Especially North America: transferred use of the surname, in origin an occupational name. The term was used not only of hunters on horseback of game such as stags and wild boars, which was in the Middle Ages a pursuit restricted to the ranks of the nobility, but also of much humbler bird catchers and poachers seeking food.
| 1,334th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 17,423
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 178,302
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Virginia
- has the most people named Hunter per capita
- 2000
- marked the height of its popularity
5%
95%
0.19%
55+
55+
0.92%
30-54
30-54
12%
13-29
13-29
87%
0-12
0-12
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