Gunter
Fewer than 50 men in Poland carry it, and no boys have been given it this century: most Poles will never meet a Gunter. The name is Germanic, built from roots meaning "war" and "army".
Gunter Pronunciation
Gunter is pronounced GOON-ter (/ˈguntɛr/).
What Gunter means
Where Gunter comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gunter grows from Germanic soil. Its first piece, gund, meant war or battle. Its second, heri, meant army. Together they read as war army, which Polish renders as wojownik.
History gives the name real bearers. Gundahar ruled the Burgundians in the fifth century, and his name rests on those same two roots. The Burgundians who carried it were a Germanic people, so the German association was there from the start.
Literature kept it alive. In the medieval Nibelungenlied, Gunther is a Burgundian king who marries Brünhild and comes to a hard end. Readers met a ruler rather than a foot soldier, yet the martial meaning held. A Polish teacher reading a class register would file Gunter among the German names, and the roots back that instinct: gund and heri, war and army.
How many people are named Gunter
1 in 474360 men in Poland is named Gunter. 45 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5701 among male names.
Gunter as a middle name
Gunter is a first name for 45 men in Poland and a middle name for another 23, a 66/34 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1801st, between Gavin (23) and Hany (23).
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#1799 Gael23
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#1800 Gavin23
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#1801 Gunter23
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#1802 Hany23
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#1803 Ikar23