Gunars
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gunars is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds.
- USUnited States1 in 2.9M(measured from records)
- LVLatvia1 in 533
- ISIceland1 in 88K
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.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- 1 in 533 (inferred from the name graph)
3,532 people
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Vīrieša vārds
Sources 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gunars 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | #819 | 3,532 | 1 in 533 | 3.5K | Gunars | 70 |
| US United States | — | 113 | 1 in 2.9M | 111 | Gunars | 79 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 986K | — | Gunars | 28 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Gunars | 22 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 4M | — | Gunars | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 144K | 100 | Gunars | 9 |
| SE Sweden | — | 21 | 1 in 486K | 21 | Gunars | 6 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 176K | 6 | Gunars | 4 |
| IS Iceland | — | 4 | 1 in 88K | 4 | — | 3 |
3,532 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register), counting the spelling gunārs. 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gunars Janovskisb. 1916FIFinnish-Latvian writer
- Gunārs Saliņšb. 1924LVLatvian poet (1924-2010)
- Gunārs Cīlītisb. 1927LVLatvian painter
- Gunars Larsensb. 1949BEBelgian violinist and music teacher at the Musikhochschule Luzern, Switzerland
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 18 sources across 11 countries.
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Gunars mean?
- Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds
- Is Gunars a male or female name?
- Gunars is a male 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 Gunars have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 3.5 thousand people named Gunars, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gunars.
- Where is Gunars most common?
- Gunars is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 533 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gunars?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 3,532 people named Gunars, about 1 in 533 residents.
- How common is Gunars compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Gunars is the 819th most common given name of 11,601 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gunars?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gunarsThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 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, “Gunars” — the 819th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.