Gunvor
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Gunvor är ett nordiskt namn, sammansatt av → Gun- och namnelementet → -vor
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/gu0nvur/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gunvor is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 1K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 2.2K
- FIFinland1 in 7.4K
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 55 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
10,197 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Gunvor är ett nordiskt namn, sammansatt av → Gun- och namnelementet → -vor. I den rikssvenska almanackan 3 mars och i den finlandssvenska 25 mars.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gunvor 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.
10,197 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present). 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)
Gunvor 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, im 2 0 .Jh. aus dem Schwedischen entlehnter weibl. Vom. (zu altnord, gunnr »Kampf, Streit« + altnord, -vqr »wachsam«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Gunvor Ingstad Trættebergb. 1897NONorwegian ethnologist (1897-1975)
- Gunvor Katharina Ekerb. 1906NONorwegian politician (1906-1980)
- Gunvor Galtung Haavikb. 1912NONorwegian spy (1912-1977)
- Gunvor Hofmob. 1921NONorwegian writer (1921–1995)
- Gunvor Ponténb. 1929SEactress
- Vesla Vetlesenb. 1930NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian politician (1930–2024)
- Gunvor Nelsonb. 1931SESwedish film director (1931–2025)
- Gunvor Halsb. 1953NONorwegian television presenter
- Gunvor Guggisbergb. 1974CHSwiss singer and dancer
- Sofia Kappelb. 1998SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actress
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 18 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 14K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 13K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 13K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 13K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 13K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 12K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 12K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 12K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 11K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 11K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 11K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 10K | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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 are other forms of the name Gunvor?
- In the etymology graph, Gunnvor is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Gunvor?
- A machine transcription gives /gu0nvur/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- Is Gunvor a male or female name?
- Gunvor is a female 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.
- What does the name Gunvor mean?
- Recorded meaning: Gunvor är ett nordiskt namn, sammansatt av → Gun- och namnelementet → -vor.
- In which country does Gunvor have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Gunvor, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gunvor.
- Where is Gunvor most common?
- Gunvor is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gunvor?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 10,197 people named Gunvor, about 1 in 1.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Gunvor compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Gunvor is the 499th most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gunvor?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gunvorThe 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, “Gunvor” — the 499th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.