Rúna

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ruːna/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • ISIceland1 in 2.9K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 4.5K
  • SESweden1 in 8K

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.

Sweden (measured from records)

1,269 people

Sources
47 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Iceland

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 Runa in NO Norway, SE Sweden, US United States and 1 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 29 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Rúna 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 Rúna is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden—1,2691 in 8K1.3KRuna27
NO Norway#9371,2051 in 4.5K4.1KRuna46
US United States—6691 in 497K658Runa28
DK Denmark—4031 in 15K403Runa47
IS Iceland#9231201 in 2.9K120Rúna26
FI Finland—1141 in 49K280—2
FO Faroe Islands#187——79Rúna2

1,269 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Hagstova Føroya — Given names, living population (PX-Web, 2024). 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)

Rúna is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name53 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Bangladesh, Philippines

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, English

    Also written Runa, রুনা, Ruena, Rona, রুণা

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Rûna, Rūnā, Růna, Rùna, Runa

  • a separate given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Norway, United States, Sweden

    Also written Runa, Runå

  • Croatian given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Kazakhstan, United States, Croatia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Runa, Руна, Ruña

4 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)

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)

InformalHi Rúna,

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 9 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Rúna
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IS IcelandÞjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry)2026120—
FO Faroe IslandsHagstova Føroya — Given names, living population (PX-Web, 2024)—79—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—22#4,666
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—3#51,951
FO Faroe IslandsFólkanavnalistin — official advisory list of given names (Navnanevndin)———
IS IcelandMannanafnaskrá — official register of approved personal names———

Reference works 2

  • 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 Rúna?
A machine transcription gives /ruːna/ (IPA) for Icelandic.
Is Rúna a male or female name?
Rúna 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 Rúna have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Rúna, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled runa.
Where is Rúna most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rúna is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 2.9 thousand people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Rúna?
In Sweden, the national register counted 1,269 people named Rúna, about 1 in 8.0 thousand residents.
How common is Rúna compared with other names?
In Faroe Islands, Rúna is the 187th most common given name of 194 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, “Rúna” — the 187th most common given name in Faroe Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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