Gunnar

From Old Norse Gunnarr, cognate with German Günther and medieval English Gunter.

Gunnar

1. a male given name

• Gunner

• [3] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 20 117 males with the given name Gunnar have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1920s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

From Old Norse Gunnarr.

Gunnar

1. a male given name

• Kunnar

From Old Norse Gunnarr, from Proto-Germanic *Gunþiharjaz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʊnːaɹ/
• Rhymes: -ʊnːaɹ

Gunnar m

1. a male given name

Patronymics

• son of Gunnar: Gunnarsson
• daughter of Gunnar: Gunnarsdóttir

From Old Norse Gunnarr.

• Rhymes: -ʏnːar

Gunnar m (proper noun, genitive singular Gunnars)

1. a male given name

• Gunna, Gonnar, Gonar, Gunnår (regional variants)

From Old Norse Gunnarr, from Proto-Germanic *Gunþiharjaz, from *gunþiz (“battle”) + *harjaz (“warrior”). Cognate with Faroese, Icelandic, and Swedish Gunnar, Danish Gunder and German Gunther.

• IPA^(key): /²ɡʊnːar/, /²ɡʉnːar/
• (segmentation) IPA^(key): /²ɡʊdnar/
• (palatalisation) IPA^(key): /²ɡʊɲːar/, (Sunnmøre) /²ɡʊɲːa/

Gunnar m

1. a male given name from Old Norse

The name is also found in various 19th century rune inscriptions from Hordaland, using the Danicised form Gunder: ᚵᚢᚿᚦᛅᚱ.^[1][2] Patronymics:

• son of Gunnar: Gunnarsson
• daughter of Gunnar: Gunnarsdotter

• gunn (name element)

• Eivind Vågslid (1988) Norderlendske fyrenamn (in Norwegian Nynorsk), →ISBN, page 149
• Kristoffer Kruken, Ola Stemshaug (1995) Norsk personnamnleksikon, Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, →ISBN
• Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 11 805 males with the given name Gunnar living in Norway on January 1st 2022, with the frequency peak in the 1920s. Accessed on 2nd January, 2022.

Gunnar m

1. accusative of Gunnarr

Gunnar f

1. genitive of Guðr
2. genitive of Gunnr

From Old Norse Gunnarr.

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Gunnar c (genitive Gunnars)

1. a male given name

• (surnames) Gunnarsson

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [4] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 116 897 males with the given name Gunnar living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010. Accessed on 19 June 2011.