Gūn
surname · Latin script
Gūn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Norse Gunnr, short form of female compound names with the element gunnr (“battle”). Name of a Valkyrie in Norse mythology. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1891.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 9.5K
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 57K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 74 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈50,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gün in TR Türkiye, US United States, NL Netherlands and 2 more.
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)
From Old Norse Gunnr, short form of female compound names with the element gunnr (“battle”). Name of a Valkyrie in Norse mythology. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1891.
Sources 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- YorùbáName Dictionary
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gūn 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #204 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Gün | 74 |
| IN India | — | 1,683 | 1 in 788K | 1.7K | — | 16 |
| US United States | — | 242 | 1 in 1.4M | 331 | Gün | 72 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 180 | 1 in 96K | 180 | Gün | 22 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Gün | 6 |
| CY Cyprus | #555 | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | — | Gün | 5 |
| DK Denmark | — | 42 | 1 in 140K | 53 | — | — |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gūn mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Norse Gunnr, short form of female compound names with the element gunnr (“battle”). Name of a Valkyrie in Norse mythology. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1891. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Gūn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 50 thousand people named Gūn in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gün.
- How common is the name Gūn?
- In India, the national register counted 1,683 people named Gūn, about 1 in 788 thousand residents.
- How common is Gūn compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Gūn is the 204th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Gūn” — the 204th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.