Gunilla
given name · Swedish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gunilla is a given name, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 61st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Swedish and Finnish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Gunilla är en i Sverige latiniserad form av → Gunhild.
- SESweden1 in 209◐
- FIFinland1 in 2.6K
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈51K ●
- Sources
- 112 ●
- 1 in 209 ◐
across 7 countries
23K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Meaning & origin●
Gunilla är en i Sverige latiniserad form av → Gunhild. Från 1500-talet förekommer den också som en folkspråklig form. I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska alma nackan 30 januari.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #61 | 48,740△ | 16K rec. | 1 in 209 | 49K | Gunilla | 94 |
| FI Finland | #726 | 2,108△ | 282 rec. | 1 in 2.6K | 4K | Gunilla | 19 |
| DE Germany | — | 527 | 462 rec. | — | listed | Gunilla | 60 |
| NO Norway | — | 458 | 165 rec. | — | 258 | Gunilla | 18 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 403 | 366 rec. | — | — | Gunilla | 32 |
| US United States | — | 272 | 3.9K rec. | 1 in 1.2M | 272 | Gunilla | 112 |
| AU Australia | — | 250 | 227 rec. | — | — | Gunilla | 33 |
| DK Denmark | — | 157 | 92 rec. | 1 in 37K | 157 | Gunilla | 41 |
| BJ Benin | #75 | 133 | 145 rec. | — | — | Gunilla | 7 |
| ES Spain | — | 127 | 109 rec. | — | 6 | Gunilla | 16 |
| CA Canada | — | 106 | 103 rec. | — | — | Gunilla | 11 |
| AX Åland Islands | #170 | 77 | 1 rec. | — | 76 | Gunilla | 3 |
Roughly 49K people in Sweden bear this name (about 1 in 209). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Swedish22K45%
- Finnish15K30%
- English4.5K9%
- German1.1K2%
- French9372%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swedish | 22,246 | 45% |
| Finnish | 14,788 | 30% |
| English | 4,543 | 9% |
| German | 1,112 | 2% |
| French | 937 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Gunilla is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom., in Schweden entstan dene latinisierte Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Swedish: Latinized form of GUNNHILD , in use from the 16th century to the present day. It enjoyed a vogue of particular popularity in Sweden during the 1940s.
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 27,287 |
| 2000 | 27,304 |
| 2001 | 27,358 |
| 2002 | 27,411 |
| 2003 | 27,615 |
| 2004 | 27,628 |
| 2005 | 27,441 |
| 2006 | 27,432 |
| 2007 | 27,345 |
| 2008 | 27,503 |
| 2009 | 27,438 |
| 2010 | 27,363 |
| 2011 | 27,287 |
| 2012 | 27,174 |
| 2013 | 27,024 |
| 2014 | 26,872 |
| 2015 | 26,701 |
| 2016 | 26,544 |
| 2017 | 26,326 |
| 2018 | 26,113 |
| 2019 | 25,869 |
| 2020 | 25,611 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Gunhild of Wendenb. 901not in their usual namePolish princess, daughter of Mieszko I of Poland
- Gunnhildr konungamóðirb. 910NOnot in their usual namewife of Eric Bloodaxe
- Gunhilda of Denmarkb. 1020DKnot in their usual name11th century Queen of Germany
- Gunilla Bielkeb. 1568SEQueen of Sweden (1568-1597)
- Gunilla Bergströmb. 1942SESwedish writer, illustrator and journalist (1942–2021)
- Gunilla Nyroosb. 1945FISwedish actress
- Elisabeth Andreassenb. 1958SEnot in their usual nameNorwegian singer and songwriter
- Gunilla Röörb. 1959SESwedish actress
- Gunilla Carlssonb. 1963SESwedish politician
- Ellen Hillingsøb. 1967DKnot in their usual nameDanish actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 23 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 49K | #82 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 28K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 28K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 28K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 27K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 27K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 27K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 27K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 27K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 27K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 27K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 27K | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 49 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Gunilla?
- We estimate roughly 51 thousand people bear Gunilla (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Gunilla have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 49 thousand people bear Gunilla in Sweden, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled gunilla.
- Where is Gunilla most common?
- Gunilla is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 209 people carrying it.
- How common is Gunilla compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Gunilla is the 61st most common given name of 36,824 given names recorded there.
- Is Gunilla a male or female name?
- Gunilla is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Gunilla mean?
- Recorded meaning: Gunilla är en i Sverige latiniserad form av → Gunhild.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gunilla” — the 61st most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.