Gunārs

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Vīrieša vārds

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Gunārs is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2.9M(measured from records)
  • LVLatvia1 in 533
  • ISIceland1 in 88K

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.

Latvia (measured from records)

3,532 people

Sources
79 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 533 (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gunars in LV Latvia, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 5 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(measured from records)

recorded in Latvian

Vīrieša vārds

Sources 1

  • Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gunārs 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.

Where Gunārs is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LV Latvia#8193,5321 in 5333.5KGunars70
US United States—1131 in 2.9M111Gunars79
GB United Kingdom—≈67 est.≈1 in 986K—Gunars28
DE Germany—≈67 est.≈1 in 1.2M—Gunars22
NG Nigeria—≈54 est.≈1 in 4M—Gunars1
NO Norway—≈38 est.≈1 in 144K100Gunars9
SE Sweden—211 in 486K21Gunars6
EE Estonia—≈7 est.≈1 in 176K6Gunars4
IS Iceland—41 in 88K4—3

3,532 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register), counting the spelling gunārs. 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gunārs is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gunars

  • Russian given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Latvia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Гунарс, Gunars

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Gunar̄s, Gunars

  • Croatian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia

    Also written Gunars

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gunars

  • Czech given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia

    Also written Gunars

12 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Gunārs Meierovics, b. 1920Gunārs Birkerts, b. 1925Gunārs Priede, b. 1928Gunārs Cilinskis, b. 1931Gunārs Piesis, b. 1931Gunārs Astra, b. 1931Gunārs Krollis, b. 1932Gunārs Binde, b. 1933Gunārs Rusiņš, b. 1960Gunārs Skvorcovs, b. 1990

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)

InformalSveiki Gunārs,Hi Gunārs, (English)

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)

Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Gunārs
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—3.5K—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—3.5K#154
EE EstoniaSiseministeerium — population register name list 20232023——

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Gunārs?
In the etymology graph, Gunnar, Gunner and Guntars are forms of the same name in other languages.
Is Gunārs a male or female name?
Gunārs is a male 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.
What does the name Gunārs mean?
Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds
In which country does Gunārs have the most bearers?
In Latvia, the national register counted about 3.5 thousand people named Gunārs, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gunars.
Where is Gunārs most common?
Gunārs is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 533 people carrying it.
How common is the name Gunārs?
In Latvia, the national register counted 3,532 people named Gunārs, about 1 in 533 residents.
How common is Gunārs compared with other names?
In Latvia, Gunārs is the 819th most common given name of 11,601 given names recorded there.

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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, “Gunārs” — the 819th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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