Gurli
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Gurli kan vara ett indiskt gudinnenamn, en variant av det indiska namnet Gauri, bildat till sanskrits gauri ’vit’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡurli/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gurli is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 2.3K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 7.1K
- FIFinland1 in 33K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 39 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
2,504 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Gurli kan vara ett indiskt gudinnenamn, en variant av det indiska namnet Gauri, bildat till sanskrits gauri ’vit’. Det kom till Sverige på 1700-talet som ett litterärt namn via sagocykeln Tusen och en natt, och genom ett skådespel av den populäre dramatikern August von Kotzebue. I den finlandssvenska almanackan 5 augusti.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gurli 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.
2,504 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name 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); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Gurli is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, aus Indien stammender weibl. Vom. (zu sanskrit. gaun »weiß«), der Name einer
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Gurli Åbergb. 1843SESwedish actress
- Gurli Linderb. 1865SESwedish writer and feminist
- Gurli Hertzman-Ericsonb. 1879SESwedish translator and writer, editor (1879-1954)
- Gurli Sevón-Rosenbröijerb. 1892FIFinnish journalist
- Gurli Ewerlundb. 1902SEswimmer (1902-1985)
- Gurli Øhrnb. 1904NONorwegian author
- Kai Gullmarb. 1905SEnot in their usual nameSwedish composer (1905-1982)
- Gwili Andreb. 1908DKnot in their usual nameDanish model and actress (1908–1959)
- Gurli Lemon-Bernhardb. 1916SESwedish actress (1916-2011)
- Gurli Lindénb. 1940FISwedish-speaking writer from Finland
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)
Attested in 18 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 2.6K | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 2.5K | #215 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 2.4K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 2.3K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 2.2K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 2.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 2K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 1.8K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 1.8K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 1.6K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 1.6K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 1.4K | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Gurli?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡurli/ (IPA) for Danish.
- What does the name Gurli mean?
- Recorded meaning: Gurli kan vara ett indiskt gudinnenamn, en variant av det indiska namnet Gauri, bildat till sanskrits gauri ’vit’.
- Is Gurli a male or female name?
- Gurli 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 Gurli have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named Gurli, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gurli most common?
- Gurli is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gurli?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 2,504 people named Gurli, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Gurli?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gurliThe 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, “Gurli”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.