Gun
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Americanized form of an earlier name after further reshaping; exact source unclear in OCR context
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gun is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 69K
- NLNetherlands1 in 96K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 155 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 69K (inferred from the name graph)
1,683 people
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Guen in NL Netherlands, MY Malaysia, FR France and Gün in TR Türkiye.
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)
Americanized form of an earlier name after further reshaping; exact source unclear in OCR context
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gun 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 1,683 | 1 in 788K | 1.7K | — | 20 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Guen | 30 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 222K | — | Gün | 34 |
| FR France | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 231K | 62 | Guen | 6 |
| US United States | 242 | 1 in 1.4M | 331 | Gun | 155 |
| NL Netherlands | 180 | 1 in 96K | 180 | Guen | 35 |
| DK Denmark | 42 | 1 in 140K | 53 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 40 | 1 in 210K | 40 | — | 6 |
1,683 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Gun is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, from ON Gunnr ‘battle’, or a pet-form of Gunnhildr; first attested Gunne 1142 NthCh (L); see GUNNETT
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In dag, short form of emphatic pronoun, ‘guna’ gun(i) pron
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
In Kurdish, testicle, ball, bollock, egg, nut, orchis, testis
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Yoruba, to be long (usually along a horizontal axis)
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)
- Wang Geonb. 877KPnot in their usual namefounder of the Goryeo Dynasty (877-943)
- Kang Konb. 1918KPnot in their usual nameNorth Korean military leader
- Gun Zachariasb. 1927SESwedish writer (1927-2012)
- Bibi Johnsb. 1929SEnot in their usual nameSwedish singer and actress
- Gun Arvidssonb. 1930SESwedish actress (1930-2004)
- Goh Kunb. 1938KRnot in their usual nameActing President of South Korea from March to May 2004, Prime Minister of South Korea from 1997 to 1998 and from 2003 to 2004
- Shin Kuhnb. 1941KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean politician (1941-2015)
- Gun Hellsvikb. 1942SESwedish politician (1942-2016)
- Katharine Gunb. 1974GBtranslator and whistle-blower
- Ken Rheeb. 1984KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean naval officer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 39 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.7K | #3,604 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 362 | #2,613 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 331 | #64,820 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 242 | #78,821 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 186 | #91,801 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 62 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 22 | #34,100 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 13 | #57,784 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 Gun mean, and where does it come from?
- Americanized form of an earlier name after further reshaping; exact source unclear in OCR context Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Gun?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gun have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Gun, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Gun?
- In India, the national register counted 1,683 people named Gun, about 1 in 788 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gunThe 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, “Gun”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.