Guni
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Guni is a biblical name of Hebrew origin meaning 'protected'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Guni is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country.
- KEKenya≈1 in 234K(inferred from the name graph)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 2.5M
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 5.3M
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 Guni 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.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 34 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 234K (inferred from the name graph)
1,893 named Guna
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kenya, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Guni is a biblical name of Hebrew origin meaning 'protected.' In the Old Testament, Guni was a man from the tribe of Gad, mentioned as an ancestor in a notable lineage.
Sources 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Where in the world(measured from records)
Guni 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 | 1,893as Guna | 1 in 994 | 1.9K | — | — |
| KE Kenya | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 234K | — | Guni | 6 |
| US United States | 165as Guna | 1 in 2M | 100 | Guni | 20 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 5.3M | listed | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 27as Guna | 1 in 7.8M | 27 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 26as Guna | 1 in 392K | 26 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 13as Guna | 1 in 451K | 13 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 5as Guna | 1 in 70K | 5 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 2 | 1 in 2.5M | 2 | — | — |
1,893 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); 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); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Guni 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.
The Hebrew name Guni is understood to mean 'protected' or 'my defender'.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
As the head of the Gunite clan, he represents a distinct family line within the tribe of Naphtali that was preserved through the Egyptian sojourn and the wilderness wanderings.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
Painted with colors
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In dag, interrogative pronoun, ‘who’? guni -da V. 1. to hide 2. to sit on eggs (as bird). settle down, bend down KO
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
Jewish: name (meaning ‘painted, coloured’ in Hebrew) borne in the Bible by a son of Naphtali and grandson of Jacob (Genesis 46: 24).
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)
- Guni Israelib. 1984ILIsraeli basketball player (born 1984)
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 17 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Guni come from?
- Guni is a biblical name of Hebrew origin meaning 'protected.' In the Old Testament, Guni was a man from the tribe of Gad, mentioned as an ancestor in a notable lineage. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- How do you pronounce Guni?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡni/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Guni a male or female name?
- Guni 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 does the name Guni mean?
- Recorded meaning: Guni is a biblical name of Hebrew origin meaning 'protected.'
- In which country does Guni have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Guna, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Guni?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 2 people named Guni, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Guni?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/guniThe 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, “Guni”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.