Shooter comes from the Japanese tradition, meaning Gunman or sharpshooter..
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How popular is Shooter?
2009peak year
Today, Shooter is rarely chosen — ranked well outside the top 1,000 (around #9109), with only about 9 babies given the name per year. But it wasn't always this way. At its peak in 2009, 30 babies were given the name (ranked #3624 nationally). Its strongest stretch was the 2010s. Shooter has been declining in recent years. In all, around 301 babies have been registered as Shooter since 1880.
Year-by-year registrations1880–2024 · U.S. Social Security data
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