Entry № 3868 · German origin

Gundrun Gundrun — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
German
Meaning
"A secret rune of battle"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a secret rune of battle".

Gundrun is a name of German origin, meaning a secret rune of battle.

A secret rune of battle — a German name.

The name in its native script.

Gundrun
Transliteration
Gundrun
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

What Gundrun is built from.

Gundrun is a compound name. Its parts are rún — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.

rún
Old Norse
“secret lore, rune”

Where Gundrun stands.

Gundrun does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Gundruns before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Gundrun.

The number behind Gundrun.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Gundrun reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.