Gun

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Gun: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Gun: Recorded since 1945, it reached #196 in 1962, and it was last ranked in 1975.

1registrar recorded it
28times a registrar ranked it
31years from first to last
#196highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Norway · Girls

Falling

among girls in Norway · 1945–1975

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Norway · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1945	#285
1946	#264
1947	#232
1948	#274
1949	#246
1950	#240
1951	#224
1952	#231
1953	#256
1954	#204
1955	#242
1956	#221
1957	#227
1958	#238
1959	#286
1960	#282
1961	#273
1962	#196
1963	#286
1964	#320
1965	#411
1966	#429
1967	#420
1968	#369
1970	#590
1971	#575
1974	#494
1975	#366

VerifiedSource: Statistics Norway (SSB) — Born Persons by First Name.Confidence: high.

See all Norway names · Source: Statistics Norway (SSB) — Born Persons by First Name

What the data shows

FallingNorway · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 28 of the 31 years from 1945 to 1975.

Official data for Norway, 1945–1975 · Statistics Norway (SSB). Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #285 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–1975
Highest recorded position: #196 among girls in Norway, in 1962 (recorded 1945–1975).
Norway · Girls
Most recent1975
Most recently recorded at #366 among girls in Norway, in 1975.
Norway · Girls

Gun by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Gun in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	59	5 of 10	12
1950sbusiest	141	10 of 10	14
1960s	93	9 of 10	10
1970s	24	4 of 10	6

Across Norway · Girls, the 1950s were its busiest decade, averaging 14 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Gun appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for Norway from 1945 to 1975. Highest recorded position: #196 in Norway in 1962.

Gun's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
1975	Norway	female	#366	10	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#494	6	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#575	4	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#590	4	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#369	9	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#420	7	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#429	6	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#411	7	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#320	10	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#286	12	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#196	19	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#273	12	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#282	11	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#286	11	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#238	14	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#227	14	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#221	15	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#242	14	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#204	18	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#256	12	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#231	15	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#224	15	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#240	13	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#246	13	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#274	10	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#232	15	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#264	12	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#285	9	High	Verified

Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1945 and 1975, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #196, first reached in 1962.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 19 births, registered in Norway in 1962.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Gunda · #257, 10y
Guneet · #2721, 18y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Liadh · #196, 30y
Wieslaw · #197, 31y
Frans · #193, 26y
Kaare · #199, 31y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Hilmar · #196, 40y
Johann · #196, 60y
Anne-Mette · #195, 39y
Jozef · #195, 66y

Gun was ranked #196 in Norway · Girls in 1962. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Gun and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Gun without appearing here.

Gun moved ahead of

Ella Compare
In 1974 they stood at #575 and #351 in Norway · Girls; by 1975 that had become #366 and #593.
Ada Compare
In 1974 they stood at #575 and #554 in Norway · Girls; by 1975 that had become #366 and #535.
Hedvig Compare
In 1974 they stood at #494 and #453 in Norway · Girls; by 1975 that had become #366 and #503.
Ellinor Compare
In 1974 they stood at #494 and #420 in Norway · Girls; by 1975 that had become #366 and #500.

Moved ahead of Gun

Marte Compare
In 1969 they stood at #369 and #378 in Norway · Girls; by 1970 that had become #590 and #196.
Sarah Compare
In 1969 they stood at #369 and #405 in Norway · Girls; by 1970 that had become #590 and #265.
Marthe Compare
In 1969 they stood at #369 and #434 in Norway · Girls; by 1970 that had become #590 and #270.
Belinda Compare
In 1969 they stood at #369 and #450 in Norway · Girls; by 1970 that had become #590 and #288.

Moved the opposite way to Gun

Anette Compare
Between 1947 and 1975 in Norway · Girls, Gun went from #232 to #366 while Anette went from #361 to #28.
Sara Compare
Between 1947 and 1975 in Norway · Girls, Gun went from #232 to #366 while Sara went from #385 to #149.
Yvonne Compare
Between 1947 and 1975 in Norway · Girls, Gun went from #232 to #366 while Yvonne went from #319 to #116.
Camilla Compare
Between 1949 and 1975 in Norway · Girls, Gun went from #246 to #366 while Camilla went from #362 to #15.

Moved the same way as Gun

Elsie Compare
Between 1945 and 1971 in Norway · Girls, Gun went from #285 to #575 and Elsie from #301 to #475.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for Norway from 1945 to 1975. Highest recorded position: #196 in Norway in 1962. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Gun

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Gun by decade in Norway · Girls

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Gun at a glance

Gun by decade in Norway · Girls

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