Given name & surname · also Old Norse
Gunn
“a white-skinned man; a white-haired man”
Gunn is used as a given name and a surname. One Scottish interpretation is “a white-skinned man; a white-haired man.”
Original Old NorseGunnr
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Scottish interpretation is “a white-skinned man; a white-haired man.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Old Norse.
How it developed
Gunn is a short form of Gunnvor.
Gunn’s family of names
Gunn is a short form of Gunnvor. In Norwegian usage, Gunn shares a linguistic root with Gunda. Gunn has a related form in Gun.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Gunn
- Gunn WållgrenSwedish actress (1913–1983)
- Gunn Margit AndreassenNorwegian biathleteborn 1973
- Gunn Nyborgassociation football playerborn 1960
- Gunn Marit HelgesenNorwegian politicianborn 1958
- Gunn KansaraIndian actressborn 1982
- Gunn Karin GjulNorwegian jurist and politicianborn 1967
- Gunn OlsenNorwegian politician (1952-2013)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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Gyrd
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“young goose”
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