Gunya
given name · Latin script
Meaning: » Aghora (N); Jina (N); Parsvanatha (N);
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
Gunya is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia≈1 in 2.8Mfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 22M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 9 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.8M (inferred from the name graph)
≈520 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)» Aghora (N); Jina (N); Parsvanatha (N);
Cited for this meaning 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gunya 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 | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | 20 | Gunya | 9 |
| US United States | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 22M | listed | — | 6 |
| PL Poland | — | — | 4 | — | — |
| MW Malawi | — | — | listed | — | 1 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); the masakhane register. 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)Gunya 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 bdy, a traditional native home, made from wood or bark
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nnr, a white person, a European, a non-Aboriginal
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hausa, dun-colored horse
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In srn, to hesitate
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.
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Sunama Sarit — Sanskrit Names (2020) | — | — | — |
| MW Malawi | MasakhaNER 2.0 — Zimbabwe (sna) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gunya mean?
- Recorded meaning: » Aghora (N); Jina (N); Parsvanatha (N);
- Is Gunya a male or female name?
- Gunya 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.
- In which country does Gunya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 523 people named Gunya in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gunya.
- How common is the name Gunya?
- Mondonomo estimates about 520 people in India have Gunya as their first given name, about 1 in 2.8 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Gunya?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gunyaThe 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, “Gunya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.