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You're supposed to pronounce the /t/ technically. But the pronounciation of "Hunner" is a product of co-articulation. When saying the name quickly, it's easier to drop the /t/ because it's a pronounced stop sound that requires your tongue to hit your alvealor ridge (by your teeth)before going to the back of your mouth to produce to the "er" sound. Since the /n/ sound is produced with your tongue at the roof of your mouth, it's easier to just leave your tongue back there for the "er" rather than go up to the front of your mouth for the /t/ sound. It's just a pronounciation that has developed over time. Neither pronciation is right or wrong, it's just an articulation pattern and can also be a matter of dialect too. I'm sure it's pronounced differently in different places.(I'm a speech-language pathologist by the way, so that's why this explanation came to mind.)

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Anyone remember the show Boy Meets World? Mr. Feeny would pronounce Shawn's last name as "Hunter" while Mr. Turner pronounced it "Hunner". Just a difference.