Gunna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: in den i96oer-Jahren entlehnter weibl
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026
Gunna is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 35K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 175K
- SESweden1 in 408K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 48 (measured from records)
- 1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
≈170 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)in den i96oer-Jahren entlehnter weibl. Vom., dänische/schwedische Kurz form von
Cited for this meaning 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gunna counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); the duden-vornamen-2007 register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Gunna is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Icelandic, a diminutive of the female given name Guðrún
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, a kind of leather garment
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Scottish Gaelic, gun, musket
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Gunna Breuning-Stormb. 1891DKDanish violinist and music teacher (1891–1966)
- Gunna Starckb. 1943Danish sociologist
- Gunna Wendtb. 1953DEGerman writer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 166 | #1,126 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 25 | #21,708 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 15 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 15 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 15 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 15 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 15 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 15 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 14 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Gunna?
- In the etymology graph, Gunda, Gundula and Gunhild are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Gunna a male or female name?
- Gunna is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Denmark (Danmarks Statistik).
- What does the name Gunna mean?
- Recorded meaning: in den i96oer-Jahren entlehnter weibl.
- In which country does Gunna have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 167 people named Gunna in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gunna most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gunna is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 35 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gunna?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 166 people named Gunna, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gunnaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gunna”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.