Gunder

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Male Name

Usage

Old Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Variant form (Danish) of Gunnar

Related Names

See Gunnarr

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Gundersen
Gundersén
Gunderson
Gunderssen
Gundersson
Gunderssøn
Gundersøn

Female

Gunderdatter
Gunderdotter
Gundersdatter
Gundersdotter

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Gunder
Genitive:	Gunders

- Finnish
Nominative:	Gunder
Genitive:	Gunderin
Partitive:	Gunderia

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Gunder
Genitive:	Gunders

- Swedish
Nominative:	Gunder
Genitive:	Gunders

Name Day

Sweden

9 January

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark:
  • Riberhus Lens Jordebog 1585
  • A name mentioned in Danmarks gamle Folkeviser
• Sweden:
  • 1816

Strongest Period of Usage

• Norway:
  • 1900-1915
  • 1945-1965
• Sweden:
  • 1940-1949

Namesakes

• Gunder Hägg (31 December 1918 – 27 November 2004), Swedish runner and multiple world record breaker of the 1940s
• Gunder Gundersen (12 September 1930 – 2 June 2005), Norwegian Nordic combined skier

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Sweden		197	700	0	0	197	700
Denmark		36	n.a.	21	n.a.	15	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	66	0	0	n.a.	66
Norway		105	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	105	n.a.
Greenland		0	0	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
#: 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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Gunder.