Gunnhild
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name from Old Norse
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡʉnːhɪld/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gunnhild is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 5.4K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 88K
- DKDenmark1 in 587K
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
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.4K (inferred from the name graph)
1,020 people, 2025
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name from Old Norse
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gunnhild 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.
1,020 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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)
Gunnhild 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.
Scandinavian: from an Old Norse female personal name composed of the nearly synonymous elements gunnr strife + hildr battle. The name has been in common use since the Viking period. It lies behind the English surnames Gunnell and Cunnell . Variant: Gunhild .
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
- Gunhildeb. 950GBnot in their usual namesister of Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark
- Gunnhildr Sveinsdóttirb. 1015NOnot in their usual nameDanish royal consorts
- Gunhilda of Denmarkb. 1020DKnot in their usual name11th century Queen of Germany
- Gunhild of Wessexb. 1055not in their usual nameEnglish noble
- Greta Molanderb. 1908SEnot in their usual nameNorwegian writer
- Gunhild Hoffmeisterb. 1944DEnot in their usual nameEast German middle distance runner and politician
- Gunhild Carlingb. 1975SEnot in their usual nameSwedish jazz musician
- Gunhild Følstadb. 1981NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian footballer
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 13 sources across 7 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
- What does the name Gunnhild mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name from Old Norse Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Gunnhild?
- In the etymology graph, Gunilla, Gunhild and Gunnel are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Gunnhild?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡʉnːhɪld/ (IPA) for Norwegian.
- Is Gunnhild a male or female name?
- Gunnhild 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 Gunnhild have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Gunnhild, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gunnhild.
- Where is Gunnhild most common?
- Gunnhild is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gunnhild?
- In Norway, the national register counted 1,020 people named Gunnhild in 2025, about 1 in 5.4 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Gunnhild?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gunnhildThe 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, “Gunnhild”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.