as a First Name
Scandinavian: from an Old Norse female personal name composed of guð ‘god’ + rūn ‘secret lore’. In Norse legend this was the name borne by the heroine of the Volsungasaga, sister of Gunnar and wife of Sigurd, whose destruction she brought about. The name was revived in the second part of the 19th century, and is now also used in Germany and occasionally in the English-speaking world, possibly under the influence of the character Gutrune in Wagner's Götterdämmerung or Gudrun Brangwen, one of the central characters in D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love (1920), which was made into a film in 1969.
| 4,962nd in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,939
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- North Dakota
- has the most people named Gudrun per capita
- 1915
- marked the height of its popularity
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