Given name

Gunnvör

Gunnvör is a feminine given name from Old Norse. It is used in Icelandic.

Original Old NorseGunnvǫr

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Gunnvör comes from Old Norse.

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How it developed

From Old Norse Gunnvǫr.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Gunnvör’s family of names

In Icelandic usage, Gunnvör continues an earlier form in Gunnvǫr.

Walk Gunnvör’s family in the name graph

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Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

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Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

Similar names

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Old Norse

Gunnborg

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>99% girls

Old English

Gunton

“enclosure; settlement, town”

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Old Norse

Guðríður

Guðríður is a feminine given name from Old Norse. It is used in Icelandic.

No U.S. birth series

>99% girls

Old English

Gunstone

“enclosure; settlement, town”

No U.S. birth series

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Old Norse

Gunill

Gunill is a feminine given name from Old Norse. It is used in Jamtish.

No U.S. birth series

>99% girls

Old Norse

Gunnrið

Gunnrið is a feminine given name from Old Norse. It is used in Faroese.

No U.S. birth series

>99% girls

Old Norse

Gunby

“settlement”

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Germanic

Guðfríður

Guðfríður is a feminine given name from Old Norse, ultimately from Proto-Germanic. It is used in Icelandic.

No U.S. birth series

>99% girls

Sibling ideas

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