Gun

See also: gun, gùn, gūn, guṅ, gün, Gün, and gǔn

Swedish

Etymology

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.

Proper noun

Gun c (genitive Guns)

  1. A female given name.

References
  • Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
  • Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 34 071 females with the given name Gun living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1930s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
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