Gudrun

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Faroese
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

Modern form of Guðrún ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Related Names

See Guðrún

Name Days

Norway

24 November

Finland (Swedish Language)

7 March

Sweden

24 November

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Gudrun
Accusative:	Gudruna
Dative:	Gudruni
Genitive:	Gudrunar

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1866 ^[3]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[5]		8550	17067	0	0
Denmark[6]		4481	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[7]		2223	3876	0	0
Finland[8]		n.a.	487	0	0
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[7]:

Sources: ^{[5] [6] [7] [8]}

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
3. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
4. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
7. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi