Hunter

155,740 people in the United States were counted with the surname Hunter in the 2020 census, making it the 168th most common in the country. That is about one person in 1,919.

By the numbers

People: 155,740
Rank: 168th
How common: 1 in 1,919
Per 100,000: 52.1

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Hunter described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 58.2%
Black, not Hispanic 31.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Hunter

Holly Hunter (born 1958)American actress
Kim Hunter (1922–2002)American actress
Evan Hunter (1926–2005)American author and screenwriter
Neilia Hunter (1942–1972)American teacher and first wife of Joe Biden
Tab Hunter (1931–2018)American actor and singer
Norman Hunter (1943–2020)English footballer
Jeffrey Hunter (1926–1969)American actor and producer
Paul Hunter (1978–2006)English snooker player

People named Hunter with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Hunter

Also a first name

Hunter has been given to 276,622 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2000. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.