Gun or Gunn is an old name formed from gunnr (battle) and is cognate with the Old English word "gúð".
Gunnr is one of the
valkyries. The equivalent male name is
Gunnar.
The earliest attestation of the name is on the
Rök runestone where it occurs as part of a
kenning for
wolf:
I say this the twelfth, where the horse of Gunnr sees fodder on the battlefield, where twenty kings lie...
Gun is the 56th most common female name in Sweden as of December 31, 2008,[1] when 34,655 living people were named Gun in Sweden.[2]
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