A name. A world of connections.

Gun

“battle”

feminineLatin script

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Swedish

Origin: Old Norse
4 language contexts: Swedish Danish Finnish +1 more
Follow the evidence: 7 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Gun

Gun is a feminine given name documented in Swedish, Danish, Finnish and 1 other language. English Wiktionary traces it to Old Norse Gunnr. It is a form of Gunnr, for which English Wiktionary gives the meaning “battle”.

Separate records with matching spellings: Gün (Turkish)

Old Norse origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “battle”

From Old Norse Gunnr, short form of female compound names with the element gunnr (“battle”). Name of a Valkyrie in Norse mythology. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1891.

Sources for this account (5)

Wiktionary: GunCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: GunCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Polish Wiktionary: GunCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Chinese Wiktionary: GunCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: GunnrCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

02 / Across borders

Where Gun is used

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countries in our sources

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2 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

Sweden

Language records

Documented as a given name in Swedish.

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4 of 4 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

Norway

1945–2025 Spelling: Gun

Region and dataset

Recorded category girls

Latest · 1975: 10; births; Rank #359
Peak year: 1962; 19 births

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Source: Statistics Norway · Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025

Published integer counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

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Gun in Norway, girls: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Status
1945	9	282	observed
1946	12	256	observed
1947	15	230	observed
1948	10	269	observed
1949	13	243	observed
1950	13	237	observed
1951	15	223	observed
1952	15	229	observed
1953	12	252	observed
1954	18	200	observed
1955	14	238	observed
1956	15	219	observed
1957	14	225	observed
1958	14	233	observed
1959	11	280	observed
1960	11	277	observed
1961	12	271	observed
1962	19	192	observed
1963	12	282	observed
1964	10	317	observed
1965	7	397	observed
1966	6	417	observed
1967	7	409	observed
1968	9	359	observed
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	4	566	observed
1971	4	554	observed
1972	no value	no value	not covered
1973	no value	no value	not covered
1974	6	481	observed
1975	10	359	observed
1976	no value	no value	not covered
1977	no value	no value	not covered
1978	no value	no value	not covered
1979	no value	no value	not covered
1980	no value	no value	not covered
1981	no value	no value	not covered
1982	no value	no value	not covered
1983	no value	no value	not covered
1984	no value	no value	not covered
1985	no value	no value	not covered
1986	no value	no value	not covered
1987	no value	no value	not covered
1988	no value	no value	not covered
1989	no value	no value	not covered
1990	no value	no value	not covered
1991	no value	no value	not covered
1992	no value	no value	not covered
1993	no value	no value	not covered
1994	no value	no value	not covered
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	no value	no value	not covered
1997	no value	no value	not covered
1998	no value	no value	not covered
1999	no value	no value	not covered
2000	no value	no value	not covered
2001	no value	no value	not covered
2002	no value	no value	not covered
2003	no value	no value	not covered
2004	no value	no value	not covered
2005	no value	no value	not covered
2006	no value	no value	not covered
2007	no value	no value	not covered
2008	no value	no value	not covered
2009	no value	no value	not covered
2010	no value	no value	not covered
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	no value	no value	not covered
2013	no value	no value	not covered
2014	no value	no value	not covered
2015	no value	no value	not covered
2016	no value	no value	not covered
2017	no value	no value	not covered
2018	no value	no value	not covered
2019	no value	no value	not covered
2020	no value	no value	not covered
2021	no value	no value	not covered
2022	no value	no value	not covered
2023	no value	no value	not covered
2024	no value	no value	not covered
2025	no value	no value	not covered

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Gun” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: Born persons for the individual girls' and boys' names published in SSB table 10467.
Rounding: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: SSB API: '.' means category not applicable; '..' means data not available. Null cells are not emitted and remain unknown, never zero.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0

Read our methodology

04 / Through time

History

Notable bearers

People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.

Gun Röring
1930–2006
Swedish artistic gymnast (1930–2006)
Wikipedia Wikidata source

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

Take the story of Gun with you. Create a personal name passport with its meaning, roots and connections.

06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms6

Wikidata Q1796041CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: GunCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: GunCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Polish Wiktionary: GunCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Chinese Wiktionary: GunCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: GunnrCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences1

Wikimedia Commons: File:LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Gun.wavCC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates2

Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Statistics Norway (SSB) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

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About Gun

Separate records with matching spellings: Gün (Turkish)

Old Norse origin

Source-reported

Meaning: “battle”

From Old Norse Gunnr, short form of female compound names with the element gunnr (“battle”). Name of a Valkyrie in Norse mythology. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1891.

Sources for this account (5)

Wiktionary: GunCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: GunCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Polish Wiktionary: GunCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Chinese Wiktionary: GunCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: GunnrCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Where Gun is used

Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Gun’s connections around the world.

2 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

Sweden

Language records

Documented as a given name in Swedish.

Explore Sweden

4 of 4 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

Norway

1945–2025 Spelling: Gun

Region and dataset

Recorded category girls

Latest · 1975: 10; births; Rank #359
Peak year: 1962; 19 births

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: Statistics Norway · Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025

Published integer counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Gun in Norway, girls: births and rank by year
Year	Births	Rank	Status
1945	9	282	observed
1946	12	256	observed
1947	15	230	observed
1948	10	269	observed
1949	13	243	observed
1950	13	237	observed
1951	15	223	observed
1952	15	229	observed
1953	12	252	observed
1954	18	200	observed
1955	14	238	observed
1956	15	219	observed
1957	14	225	observed
1958	14	233	observed
1959	11	280	observed
1960	11	277	observed
1961	12	271	observed
1962	19	192	observed
1963	12	282	observed
1964	10	317	observed
1965	7	397	observed
1966	6	417	observed
1967	7	409	observed
1968	9	359	observed
1969	no value	no value	not covered
1970	4	566	observed
1971	4	554	observed
1972	no value	no value	not covered
1973	no value	no value	not covered
1974	6	481	observed
1975	10	359	observed
1976	no value	no value	not covered
1977	no value	no value	not covered
1978	no value	no value	not covered
1979	no value	no value	not covered
1980	no value	no value	not covered
1981	no value	no value	not covered
1982	no value	no value	not covered
1983	no value	no value	not covered
1984	no value	no value	not covered
1985	no value	no value	not covered
1986	no value	no value	not covered
1987	no value	no value	not covered
1988	no value	no value	not covered
1989	no value	no value	not covered
1990	no value	no value	not covered
1991	no value	no value	not covered
1992	no value	no value	not covered
1993	no value	no value	not covered
1994	no value	no value	not covered
1995	no value	no value	not covered
1996	no value	no value	not covered
1997	no value	no value	not covered
1998	no value	no value	not covered
1999	no value	no value	not covered
2000	no value	no value	not covered
2001	no value	no value	not covered
2002	no value	no value	not covered
2003	no value	no value	not covered
2004	no value	no value	not covered
2005	no value	no value	not covered
2006	no value	no value	not covered
2007	no value	no value	not covered
2008	no value	no value	not covered
2009	no value	no value	not covered
2010	no value	no value	not covered
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	no value	no value	not covered
2013	no value	no value	not covered
2014	no value	no value	not covered
2015	no value	no value	not covered
2016	no value	no value	not covered
2017	no value	no value	not covered
2018	no value	no value	not covered
2019	no value	no value	not covered
2020	no value	no value	not covered
2021	no value	no value	not covered
2022	no value	no value	not covered
2023	no value	no value	not covered
2024	no value	no value	not covered
2025	no value	no value	not covered

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: Born persons for the individual girls' and boys' names published in SSB table 10467.
Rounding: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: SSB API: '.' means category not applicable; '..' means data not available. Null cells are not emitted and remain unknown, never zero.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0

Read our methodology

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms6

Wikidata Q1796041CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: GunCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: GunCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Polish Wiktionary: GunCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Chinese Wiktionary: GunCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wiktionary: GunnrCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Pronunciation recordingsAudio credits and individual recording licences1

Wikimedia Commons: File:LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Gun.wavCC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Statistics and surveysPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates2

Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Statistics Norway (SSB) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

A story to pass on.

About Gun

Old Norse origin

Where Gun is used

Across borders

Sweden

Popularity over time

Norway

History

Notable bearers

Gun Röring

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Gun

Old Norse origin

Where Gun is used

Across borders

Sweden

Popularity over time

Norway

History

Notable bearers

Gun Röring

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page