Hunter

Meaning

Hunter is an English occupational surname that has also become a given name, built from the word for someone who hunts. In older name books it is treated as a plain descriptive name rather than a borrowed classical or biblical form. The broader hunting idea also appears in Irish naming traditions, where related names could explicitly mean “hunter.”

Origin

Fun fact

One excerpt notes the old Irish name Fiac(h)a as meaning “a hunter,” showing that the idea of hunter was used as a personal-name meaning in more than one tradition.