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DAMMIT this is annoying. I know I've found a website in the past, which listed the origins for all of Edinburgh's street names; it was in two halves, one for really old names and one for "newer" ones... which I will currently be damned if I can find!
The Granton History site has some decent insight into place names across the northern side of Edinburgh, similarly Tollcross Online has coverage for a fair chunk of areas, though not Hunter Square! The site I had in mind was much simpler, just a series of big two-column tables with street name on the left and a brief precis of the origin on the right.
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-dict/scotland is another interesting resource for many place names, but again, not Hunter Square.
This book looks to be a good bet, but it's not particularly cheap (wonder if the libraries have a copy or two, mind you).
edit: FOUND IT .. sort of. It was at http://www.edinburgh.org.uk/STREETS/welcome.html (linked from http://www.leithhistory.co.uk/2009/09/26/the-derivation-of-edinburgh-street-names/ ) - and that site now seems to be dead.
Thankfully, it's in the web archive, so work from https://web.archive.org/web/20140106082234/http://www.edinburgh.org.uk/STREETS/welcome.html
In particular Hunter Square is from:
> From Sir James Hunter Blair, M.P. 1781. Lord Provost 1784. H own name Hunter, he married and took the name of Miss Blair of Dunskey. He carried out the scheme of the South Bridge, when, Hunter Sq. and Blair St. commemorate him. He died 1787, Anderson 264. Ainslie 1780 shows Blair St., Ainslie 1804 shows Hunter's Sq.