Guenther

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from a Germanic personal name composed of gund ‘battle’ -(- hari, heri ‘army’

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

Guenther is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 652as Günther(inferred from the name graph)
  • ATAustria≈1 in 1.1Kas Günther
  • USUnited States1 in 224Kas Gunther

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Guenther itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈120,000 named Günther, est.

Sources
386 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.9M (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GüntherLatin(measured from records)

Locally spelled Günther in DE Germany, AT Austria, BE Belgium and Gunther in US United States, SE Sweden.

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)

from a Germanic personal name composed of gund ‘battle’ -(- hari, heri ‘army’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Guenther 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 Guenther is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#174≈120,000 est.≈1 in 652—Günther188
AT Austria#187≈7,900 est.≈1 in 1.1K1KGünther96
CN China—≈7,300 est.≈1 in 192K—Guenther11
BE Belgium—≈3,600 est.≈1 in 3.3K43Günther79
US United States—1,487as Gunther1 in 224K9.8KGunther386
SE Sweden—348as Günther1 in 29K348Gunther18
CH Switzerland—≈280 est.≈1 in 30K701Guenther35
LV Latvia—11 in 1.9M1—7

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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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)

Guenther is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Güenther

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Güenther

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Güenther

57 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Guenther 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, alternative spelling of Günther

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

180018501900195020002050Franz Adolph Günther, b. 1820Richard W. Guenther, b. 1845Konrad Guenther, b. 1874Ernest Guenther, b. 1895Herbert V. Guenther, b. 1917Andreas Guenther, b. 1973Gregg Guenther, b. 1982Sean Guenther, b. 1995Dylan Guenther, b. 2003

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 38 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Guenther
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020109.8K#3,621
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020009.5K#3,439
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020209.4K#3,664
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20247#79,838
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—6#52,279
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 6

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 Guenther mean, and where does it come from?
from a Germanic personal name composed of gund ‘battle’ -(- hari, heri ‘army’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Guenther have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 123 thousand people named Günther in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Guenther most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Guenther is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 1.9 million people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Guenther?
In Latvia, the national register counted 1 people named Guenther, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
How common is Guenther compared with other names?
In Germany, Guenther is the 174th most common given name of 156,202 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, “Guenther” — the 174th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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