Given name & surname
Gunda
“a battlemaiden”
Gunda is a variant of Gunhilda. One interpretation is “a battlemaiden.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Gunda is a variant of Gunhilda. One interpretation is “a battlemaiden.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1887. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gunda through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 118
- 0 boys · 118 girls
- Most popular year
- 1893
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
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- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1930. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 12 in 1893. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 136 as a first name in 2020; 642 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Gunda’s family of names
In German usage, Gunda has a diminutive in GUNDULA. In Swedish usage, Gunda shares a linguistic root with Gun. Gunda has a related form in Gunhilda.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Gunda has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Old High German roots to each of them.
4 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Gunda
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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