Updated January 31, 2024

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Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old Norse : War

Boy name variations

Gunnar

Gunnar

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Gunther

Gunther

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Gunter

Gunter

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Guntar

Guntar

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Guner

Guner

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Guenter

Guenter

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Guntero

Guntero

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Gun

Gun

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Guenther

Guenther

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : name of a clan associated with Caithness, derived from the Old Norse personal name Gunnr (or the feminine form Gunne), a short form of any of various compound names with the first element gunn ‘battle’.
  • Scottish : sometimes an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Dhuinn ‘son of the servant of the brown one’ (see Dunn). (According to Woulfe a name of the same form also existed in Sligo, Ireland.)
  • English : metonymic occupational name for someone who operated a siege engine or cannon, perhaps also a nickname for a forceful person, from Middle English gunne, gonne ‘ballista’, ‘cannon’, ‘gun’. The term originated as a humorous application of the Scandinavian female personal name Gunne or Gunnhildr.