Gunvor

Girls' name

Possibly battle, through Gunnvǫr

Gunvor has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1925. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1925, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Gunvor, 1925

1 in 467,000

Gunvor over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gunvor: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly battle, through Gunnvǫr

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gunvor means

Gunvor belongs to the name family reached through Gunvor → Gunnvǫr. Its meaning is “battle”.

Origin, language, and formation

Gunvor is used in Norwegian and Swedish.

Gunvor comes through Old Norse Gunnvǫr.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gunnvǫr.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Gunvor between 1925 and 1925. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1925; its best national rank was #5,305 in 1925.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Gunvor?

Gunvor had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1925, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1925: 1 in 467,000; 5 of 2,333,232 births
Among girls only: 1 in 243,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1925: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 323,456 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Gunvor sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1925 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 323,456 children born in 1925 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gunvor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gunvors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gunvor was born before 1925 — so the typical Gunvor is around 100 today.

Median birth year: 1925; About 100 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Gunvor rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1925 (5)
Years since peak: 100; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #5,305; 1925

Gunvor around the world

Where Gunvor ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

Norway
1880–2018
#472
in 2018

Popularity data from Statistics Norway. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Gunvor by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #5,305; 1925
Peak year: 1925; 5 that year
First recorded: 1925
Last recorded: 1925
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Gunvor

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Gunnar Gunner Guneet Avor Eivor Gunda Gunhild Ivor Favor Trevor

Sibling names for Gunvor

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Concepcion Easter Rosina Kattie Lavon Blanch Jaunita Vernell

For a brother

Domenick Hosea Rollin Alvis Jewel Eldridge Lenard Merritt

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