Gunz
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/xuns/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain
Gunz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 108K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 1.3M
- ESSpain1 in 10M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 108K (inferred from the name graph)
162 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gunz 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 162 | 1 in 1.3M | 162 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 78 | 1 in 108K | 78 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 5 | 1 in 10M | 5 | Gunz | 10 |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Gunz | 17 |
| SV El Salvador | — | — | — | Gunz | 3 |
162 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Simon Gunzb. 1743DE(1743-1824)
- Hedwig Epsteinb. 1871CZnot in their usual nameholocaust victim, b. 1871-07-28
- Ida Löwensteinb. 1875DEnot in their usual nameholocaust victim, b. 1875-05-25
- Gebhard Wendelin Gunzb. 1881ATheraldist, parson and genealogist
- Cory Gunzb. 1987USAmerican rapper
- Philipp GunzATresearcher
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)Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 162 | #43,605 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 78 | #13,335 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 5 | #168,693 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #160,381 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Gunz?
- In Spanish /xuns/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Gunz have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 162 people named Gunz, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gunz most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gunz is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 108 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gunz?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 162 people named Gunz, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gunzThe 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, “Gunz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.