Hunter
692
Babies in 2024
+139%
10-year change
2018
Peak · 1.41k
-26%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Hunter
Hunter is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (692) are up 139% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Hunter reached its peak in 2018, when 1,410 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #44 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 692 represents 49% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 10,350 boys have been officially registered with the name Hunter in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 9,588 boys were registered with the name, starting from 289 in 2014 and ending at 692 in 2024.