Gudny
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gudny 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
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gudny 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gudny Gauslaab. 1901NONorwegian missionary
- Gudny Dalflyenb. 1915NONorwegian translator and publisher (1915-2008)
- Gudny Ronglanb. 1942NONorwegian politician
- Gudny Dahlenb. 1942NONorwegian singer and musician
- Gudny Fagerholb. 1949NONorwegian politician
- Gudny Aspaasb. 1951NONorwegian singer
- Gudny Ingebjørg Hagenb. 1954NONorwegian screenwriter
- Gudny HummelvollNONorwegian film producer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 6 countries.
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
- Is Gudny a male or female name?
- Gudny 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 Gudny have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 268 people named Gudny, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gudny.
- Where is Gudny most common?
- Gudny is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 20 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gudny?
- In Norway, the national register counted 268 people named Gudny in 2025, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Gudny compared with other names?
- In Iceland, Gudny is the 698th most common given name of 3,704 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gudny?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gudnyThe same 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), 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, “Gudny” — the 698th most common given name in Iceland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.