Gunda

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in English: Alternative form of goonda

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Gunda is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • LVLatvia1 in 9.7K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 33K
  • DKDenmark1 in 45K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Sweden (measured from records)

311 people

Sources
101 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 9.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Alternative form of goonda.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

How Gunda is read(measured from records)

Gunda is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Hindi51%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Gunda in Hindi.

  • German24%

    ) Gunde: alter deutscher weibl.

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • English6.8%

    Alternative form of goonda.

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

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gunda 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 Gunda is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden3111 in 33K311—6
LV Latvia1931 in 9.7K193Gunda14
US United States1361 in 2.4M642Gunda56
DK Denmark1291 in 45K129——
FI Finland551 in 101K205—2

311 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gunda is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Guṇḍā

  • Spanish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Brazil, India

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Gùñdä, Güñdå

48 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)

Gunda is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swedish, Gunda är ursprungligen en tysk smekform till namn på Gund- och -gund (→ Gun-). En nordisk motsvarighet är Gunna (R kuna).

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • La luchadora

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In Portuguese, a type of African tree, whose used wood is used in construction

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

  • In Hausa, young fruit, especially pumpkin

    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)

1850190019502000Gunda Beeg, b. 1858Gunda Schneider-Flume, b. 1941Gunda König, b. 1945Bettina Bergo, b. 1957Gunda Barth-Scalmani, b. 1958Gunda Röstel, b. 1962Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann, b. 1966Gunda Förster, b. 1967Gunda Ebert, b. 1969Gunda Magnusson, b. 2000

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 41 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Gunda
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020642#37,317
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010340#59,470
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000109#140,756
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—14#32,635
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—5#64,068
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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 Gunda mean, and where does it come from?
Alternative form of goonda. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Gunda a male or female name?
Gunda is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What are other forms of the name Gunda?
In the etymology graph, Gunna and Gunnr are forms of the same name in other languages; Gundula is a recorded short or pet form.
In which country does Gunda have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 311 people named Gunda, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Gunda most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gunda is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 9.7 thousand people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Gunda?
In Sweden, the national register counted 311 people named Gunda, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.

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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, “Gunda”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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