Gudný
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gudný is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 20K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 147K
- ISIceland1 in 351K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 44 (measured from records)
- 1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
268 people, 2025
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gudny in NO Norway, US United States, IS Iceland and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gudný 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.
268 people counted by SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891), 2025. 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: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2025 | 1 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Gudný a male or female name?
- Gudný is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Gudný have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 268 people named Gudný, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gudny.
- Where is Gudný most common?
- Gudný is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 20 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gudný?
- In Norway, the national register counted 268 people named Gudný in 2025, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Gudný compared with other names?
- In Iceland, Gudný is the 698th most common given name of 3,704 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gudný?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gudn%C3%BDThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Gudný” — the 698th most common given name in Iceland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.