Gunilla
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Gunilla är en i Sverige latiniserad form av → Gunhild
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/gu0nila/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gunilla is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 63rd most common given name.
- SESweden1 in 209(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M
- BJBenin≈1 in 2.4K
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 126 (measured from records)
- 1 in 209 (inferred from the name graph)
48,740 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Gunilla är en i Sverige latiniserad form av → Gunhild. Från 1500-talet förekommer den också som en folkspråklig form. I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska alma nackan 30 januari.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gunilla 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #63 | 48,740 | 1 in 209 | 49K | Gunilla | 115 |
| BJ Benin | #92 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Gunilla | 7 |
| FI Finland | #813 | 2,108 | 1 in 2.6K | 4K | Gunilla | 21 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 222K | listed | Gunilla | 61 |
| US United States | — | 272 | 1 in 1.2M | 272 | Gunilla | 126 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 258 | Gunilla | 20 |
| DK Denmark | — | 157 | 1 in 37K | 157 | Gunilla | 40 |
48,740 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the duden-vornamen-2007 register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Gunilla is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom., in Schweden entstan dene latinisierte Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Swedish: Latinized form of GUNNHILD , in use from the 16th century to the present day. It enjoyed a vogue of particular popularity in Sweden during the 1940s.
as a word
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)
- Gunhild of Wendenb. 901not in their usual namePolish princess, daughter of Mieszko I of Poland
- Gunnhildr konungamóðirb. 910NOnot in their usual namewife of Eric Bloodaxe
- Gunhilda of Denmarkb. 1020DKnot in their usual name11th century Queen of Germany
- Gunilla Bielkeb. 1568SEQueen of Sweden (1568-1597)
- Gunilla Bergströmb. 1942SESwedish writer, illustrator and journalist (1942–2021)
- Gunilla Nyroosb. 1945FISwedish actress
- Elisabeth Andreassenb. 1958SEnot in their usual nameNorwegian singer and songwriter
- Gunilla Röörb. 1959SESwedish actress
- Gunilla Carlssonb. 1963SESwedish politician
- Ellen Hillingsøb. 1967DKnot in their usual nameDanish actress
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 23 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 49K | #82 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 28K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 28K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 28K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 27K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 27K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 27K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 27K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 27K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 27K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 27K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 27K | — |
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
- What does the name Gunilla mean?
- Recorded meaning: Gunilla är en i Sverige latiniserad form av → Gunhild.
- Is Gunilla a male or female name?
- Gunilla 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.
- How common is the name Gunilla?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 48,740 people named Gunilla, about 1 in 209 residents.
- How common is Gunilla compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Gunilla is the 63rd most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Gunilla?
- A machine transcription gives /gu0nila/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- What are other forms of the name Gunilla?
- In the etymology graph, Gunhild, Gunnel and Gunnhild are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Gunilla have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 49 thousand people named Gunilla, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gunilla.
- Where is Gunilla most common?
- Gunilla is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 209 people carrying it.
What do you want to know about Gunilla?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gunillaThe 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, “Gunilla” — the 63rd most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.