Given name
Gunna
“a battlemaiden”
Gunna is a variant of Gunhilda. One interpretation is “a battlemaiden.”
Original Old NorseGuðrún
Meaning & origin
What it means
Gunna is a variant of Gunhilda. One interpretation is “a battlemaiden.”
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Icelandic usage, Gunna is a diminutive of Guðrún.
Gunna’s family of names
In Icelandic usage, Gunna is a diminutive of Guðrún. In Danish usage, Gunna shares a linguistic root with Gunda. In Norwegian Nynorsk usage, Gunna has a related form in Gunnar.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Gunna has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Old Norse roots to each of them.
Old Norsewhere Gunna comes from · 1 name
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.
People named Gunna
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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